The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that ...

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...

DNA gyrase operates like a tiny molecular machine, carefully twisting and stabilising bacterial DNA. This twisting, known as supercoiling, is similar to winding an elastic band: as it twists, it ...