Barbara Rae-Venter never anticipated that her genealogy hobby would lead to the capture of one of California's most notorious ...

Over the years, chemical biology methods have made an important contribution to the study of integral membrane proteins. A ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

A team of researchers at ChristianaCare's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and the University of Delaware ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Crack open a biology textbook and you will find the table summarizing the standard genetic code. This refers to the set of rules by which the cell "decodes" the information contained in DNA and ...

Nature’s genetic code outperformed nearly all of them. “For what we have,” said Chang Liu, a synthetic biologist at the University of California, Irvine, “it’s better than a one-in-a-million code.” ...

All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within cells, read the genetic ...

Universal genetic code may not be so universal Date: July 26, 2016 Source: American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Summary: New research is casting doubt on a commonly held belief about how ...

M illions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists thought they could do better. In an intriguing step toward lab-made organisms ...

The genetic code is “presumably derivative and subservient to the biochemistry of peptides” that are required for life to work, said Drew Endy, ...