A new way of using the genetic code has been created, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. The breakthrough could eventually lead to the ...

DNA consists of a code language comprising four letters which make up what are known as codons, or words, each three letters long. Interpreting the language of the genetic code was the work of ...

One codon, two amino acids – it’s a unique set-up and further proof that the genetic code, universal though it almost is, is open to expansion and evolutionary change.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a powerful new AI tool called Splam that can identify where splicing occurs in genes—an advance that could help scientists analyze genetic data with greater ...

Colossal and the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) embark on the world’s first effort to obtain the genetic code of the existing elephant lineage, of w ...

It took 12 years and $3bn to sequence the human genome and figure out the code in our DNA. These days, people can post off a blood sample and get information on their genetic inheritance for as ...

With the genetic code in hand, scientists can start vaccine development work without needing a sample of the virus.

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do.