Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each ...

How can just four nitrogenous bases--adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil--possibly code for all 20 amino acids? Thus, early researchers quickly determined that the smallest combination of As ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

Hidden within the genetic code lies the "triplet code," a series of three nucleotides that determine a single amino acid. How did scientists discover and unlock this amino acid code? Once the ...

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA.

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Living organisms synthesize a staggering variety of proteins by combining 20 amino acids into chains of any length and order. In the past, to expand protein diversity beyond the scope of these 20 ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were recode the genetic code of an organism, a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with ...

Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...