The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

Scientists have created bacteria that thrive using an expanded "genetic alphabet". The blueprint for all life forms on Earth is written in a code consisting of four "letters": A, T, C and G, which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Researchers in Cambridge have re-engineered the genetic code of microbes to create a synthetic cell with ...

THE answer to the origin life could simply be the number 37 which could prove that our genetic code was created by ancient aliens, according to a new scientific theory. The notion that life on Earth ...

A new age has dawned: the age of when a full genome can be sequenced for $1,000. It’s an important milestone for medicine. DNA sequencing specialists Yves Moreau and Pol Van Dorpe discuss how DNA ...

[NAIROBI] African, British and US scientists have together mapped the genetic codes of two parasites that kill millions of cattle in developing countries each year. Theileria parva and Theileria ...