A microscopic organism from a freshwater pond is playing by a different set of genetic rules. The newly identified protist, ...

A laboratory proof of concept shows that engineered plants can release a noncanonical amino acid that activates selected ...

A single-celled organism scooped from an artificial pond in Oxford University Parks reads the stop signals UAA and UAG as two ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

FishMitoCleaner processed 279 of 286 fish mitochondrial coding sequences, handling vertebrate stop codons while excluding ...

Over the years, chemical biology methods have made an important contribution to the study of integral membrane proteins. A key modern approach is genetic code expansion (GCE), which makes it possible ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein fragments called dipeptides. By analyzing billions of dipeptide sequences ...

For many years, scientists have known that genetic variants, or differences in DNA code across people, play some role in neurological and psychiatric disorders. But the details were murky. Now, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

Scientists have found new genetic causes for diabetes in babies—in a part of the genome that has historically been overlooked in genetic studies. Until recently, most research has investigated causes ...