Fulgent Genetics is rated Hold due to strong diagnostic revenue growth but an unproven transition into integrated precision ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Pyrrolysine is an important component of methyltransferase enzymes, which the archaea use to metabolize methylamine in the environment. “The need for that metabolism and availability of the machinery ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Nearly all life, from bacteria ...

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 code ...

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.