CORRECTION: This story was updated on May 24, 2012. The research team estimated solvation energies for 56,000 sequences coding for tRNA, not 5,600, as originally stated. Genomes are a patchwork of ...

Superimposed on the genetic sequences coding for amino acids is a second genetic code. This second genetic code, which makes use of dual-use codons, or duons, specifies how genes are controlled. The ...

The process of deciphering information conveyed by neurons in the human brain is known as neural coding. Conventionally, it has been done by considering how neurons change their rate of firing signals ...

RNA vaccines are a new class of vaccines that are composed of an mRNA sequence coding for a pathogen-specific protein (antigen). Once expressed in the body, the target antigen is recognized by the ...

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Annogen, the Amsterdam based biotech company behind the SuRE™ technology for the functional annotation of the non-coding part of the genome, today announced it has begun a ...

Henry M. Kronenberg, Barbara E. McDevitt, Joseph A. Majzoub, Jeremy Nathans, Phillip A. Sharp, John T. Potts and Alexander Rich Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of ...