Rule-breaking discovery: A freshwater ciliate uses stop codons to build amino acids instead of ending proteins, defying the 'universal' genetic code. Genetic code flexibility: The organism reassigns ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

Scientists from the Earlham Institute accidentally discovered a single-celled microorganism that violates one of the ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University led by Chen Peng from College of ...

Genetic activity underlies biological functions, so organisms have to make sure that the right genes are expressed at the ...

Scientists testing a new method of sequencing single cells have unexpectedly changed our understanding of the rules of genetics. The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...