While codons (combinations of three nucleotides) may vary in which do what functions, a long-standing rule was that each codon serves one specific purpose. New evidence, however suggests that ...

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has been influencing music, fashion and cultural trends for over a decade — but could she also have a hand in the names parents choose for their babies? “Taylor Swift is ...

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A new study dove into the most popular pet names of 2025, and in the cat world, one name remained on top for a second consecutive year. TrustedHousesitters, a pet-sitting platform, gathered data from ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize, Türkiye Honeybee viruses (HVs) are some of the most significant pathogens affecting these insects and are ...

Peking University, June 27, 2025: To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University ...

Stick to the classics or carve out a new name entirely? That is the question for 2025 parents to be in the era of influencer baby names. Oh, baby! How do you spell that? We’re babbling about baby ...