Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, have published a study in Nature Communications, comparing over 110 thousand patients with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) from Iceland, Finland ...

Around 25 million Americans have a rare genetic disease, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

Start Codon, a life science and healthcare venture-building fund, is pleased to invite life sciences leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors from across the life science and biotech industries to attend ...

61 codons specify one of the 20 amino acids that make up proteins 3 codons are stop codons, which signal the termination of protein synthesis Importantly, the genetic code is nearly universal, shared ...

Scientists have created a bacteria with a genetic code more streamlined – and more meddled with – than any other life on Earth. This bacteria, a synthetic Escherichia coli called Syn57, has been ...

Approximately 25 million individuals in the United States are affected by a rare genetic disorder, and a significant number ...

Translation factors eIF1A and eIF5B are key repressors of an abnormal protein translation process linked to neurodegenerative ...

Alltrna is advancing a new class of genetic medicines based on the power of tRNA biology to universally treat Stop Codon Disease, which encompasses thousands of genetic diseases caused by a premature ...