Scientists recode the genome for programmable synthetic proteins
Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...
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Reading a Codon Chart and Identifying Amino Acids
A codon chart is a visual representation that maps each of the 64 codons to their corresponding amino acids or signals. There ...
Nature4 年
Nucleic Acids to Amino Acids: DNA Specifies Protein
Hence, the resulting products provided clues that the researchers could use to deduce potential codon–amino acid relationships. For example, when A and C were mixed with polynucleotide ...
Nature7 年
genetic code
Following this discovery, Nirenberg, Philip Leder, and Gobind Khorana identified the rest of the genetic code and fully described each three-letter codon and its corresponding amino acid.