This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature ...

Scientists have identified a microbe capable of interpreting a single piece of genetic code in two completely different ways.

Transcription and translation are processes a cell uses to make all proteins the body needs to function from information stored in the sequence of bases in DNA. The four bases (C, A, T/U, and G in the ...

Proteins are among the most important molecular building blocks of life. They are chains of amino acids assembled in our cells by ribosomes, the molecular "protein factories" of our bodies. The ...