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

But sometimes, like a rogue driver skipping a red light, the machinery skips the stop codon and ends up making a longer protein than planned. This is called stop codon readthrough. "Because of ...

Note also that the codon for the amino acid methionine (AUG) acts as the start signal for protein synthesis in an mRNA. Moreover, the genetic code also includes stop codons, which do not code for ...

This portion of mRNA is located between the first nucleotide that is transcribed and the start codon (AUG) of the coding region, and it does not affect the sequence of amino acids in a protein ...

Each three-letter codon instructs the cell on which amino acid to incorporate during protein synthesis, translating the genetic information into functional proteins. (Image: National Human Genome ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.