Amino acids are the building blocks that form polypeptides and ultimately proteins. Consequently, they are fundamental components of our bodies and vital for physiological functions such as protein ...

The 20 coded amino acids and four primary ... on specific molecular recognition and base-pairing complementarity. Convergence of the peptide and nucleic acid assembly strategies could be very ...

are working on repurposing redundant codons to specify new amino acids. Romesberg’s group is exploring a different strategy: adding an entirely new base pair into DNA. That would vastly increase ...

This finding led to the development of nanopore DNA sequencing, in which variations of the measured ion current are used to determine the base sequence ... with a pair of bulky amino-acid residues ...