Genetic code of an organism is not cast in stone. There are many exceptions to the standard codon table. Pawan Kumar Dhar reviews recent work to find that it is possible to plug in synthetic amino ...

The idea of the genetic code was one of the most important and captivating implications of the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA (Yanofsky, 2007). It has transpired that the genetic ...

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" the ...