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Now, scientists have redesigned the genetic code of the bacterium Escherichia coli to contain just 57 of the 64 codons. The findings were published in late July in Science.

With 64 codons in total, the genetic code is immensely redundant. Scientists have puzzled over the bloated code of life ever since it came to light in the 1960s.

Almost all organisms follow a basic rule to make proteins. Information in DNA is encoded by codons made of three bases, or letters, and most life uses 64 codons to code for 20 naturally occurring ...

Traditional genetic code expansion (GCE) strategies achieve ncAA incorporation by reassigning stop codons as “blank” codons, which is not fully orthogonal to endogenous translation termination ...