The emergence of genetic code was inseparable from the ancestry of the RNA adaptors and protein catalysts that implement it now. In the absence of catalysts, amino-acid activation is perhaps 10 7 ...

It has long been assumed that there is only one 'canonical' genetic code, so each word means the same thing to every organism. Now, this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery of large numbers ...

I know, I know—there appear to be a million codon table apps out there. However, I give the Genetic Code app by iVanta credit for its many graphical representations of codons. Users can view the codon ...

When the Beatles sang “Hello Goodbye,” opposites and reversals were played to whimsical effect. With microbes, they hint at something darker, or at least something more complex. Microbes, it appears, ...