Scientists have created a bacteria with a genetic code more streamlined – and more meddled with – than any other life on ...

However, a triplet code produces 64 (4 3 = 64) possible combinations, or codons. Thus, a triplet code introduces the problem of there being more than three times the number of codons than amino acids.

British scientists have developed a new strain of Escherichia coli with a genetically recoded genome.According to researchers ...

They discovered that three letter ‘words’ – known as codons – are read from the DNA code and then translated into one of 20 amino acids.