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Minimally disruptive genetic code expansion enables faithful, site-specific labeling of G3BP1 and TDP-43, revealing native stress granule dynamics and ALS-linked protein behavior in live cells.

Constructive Bio’s founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Jason Chin, has been named the recipient of the 2026 ...

Every living cell reads the same genetic code — a near-universal set of instructions, conserved across billions of years of evolution, that translates DNA sequences into proteins built from the ...

This is an informal analysis and is not intended as a formal preprint or manuscript in its current form. The aim of this post is to provide a preliminary molecular evolutionary analysis of the current ...

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to this, leading ...

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The genetic building blocks of life—formed from the four nucleotides adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T)—are read in groups of three known as codons. While some codons (known as ...

Previous studies observed a correlation between the GC contents of the 12 mitochondrial protein-coding genes encoded on the H-strand and the generation times of mammals. However, how variation in GC ...

Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or codons—specify one of many amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Multiple ...

The problem of transmitting an interstellar message from one communicative civilization to another is examined, taking into account possible scenarios for the prevalence of civilizations in the Galaxy ...