Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

Scientists say this creature doesn’t follow the most basic biology relies on

For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...
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Alltrna Announces Series B Raise of $109 Million to Advance tRNA Medicines for Stop Codon Disease

Alltrna is advancing a new class of genetic medicines based on the power of tRNA biology to universally treat Stop Codon Disease, which encompasses thousands of genetic diseases caused by a premature ...

Unusual genetic code in Antarctic microbes yields rare amino acid

Researchers discover a unique genetic code in Antarctic archaea that encodes a rare amino acid, potentially advancing protein ...
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Stop-Stall Mechanism May Limit Number of Proteins Synthesized from mRNA

A messenger RNA (mRNA) does more than provide ribosomes a template for creating a sequence of amino acids. It also conveys regulatory information, including so-called stop codons. But just as cars ...