Codon Devices Inc., a maker of synthetic DNA, has received a federal grant to support company efforts to lower the cost of constructing genetic materials. The U.S. Department of Commerce's National ...

Scientists have discovered a microbe that bends the rules of the genetic code. This organism, Methanosarcina acetivorans, ...

Translation termination takes place when one of three stop codons is recognized by a proteinaceous class 1 release factor (RF) in the A site of the ribosome. The RFs are bifunctional molecules, like ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique amino acid that's added to a chain of amino acids ...