The genetic code is simply the lookup table that cells, and biologists, use to convert the nucleic acid language to the protein language.

Crack open a biology textbook and you will find a standard icon of molecular biology: the table summarizing the standard genetic code. This refers to the set of rules by which the cell "decodes ...

Nirenberg's Genetic Code Chart, 1961-66 On May 27, 1961, Heinrich Matthaei, a postdoc working with NIH scientist Marshal Nirenberg, placed synthetic polyuracil RNA into 20 test tubes to see what it ...

Scientists have a powerful new tool for controlling the coronavirus: Its own genetic code. The United States, home to the world’s biggest outbreak, has failed to tap the technique’s full ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do.