Here is the letter from ethics watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in full, detailing his investigation into Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner: “Dear Prime Minister, ...

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has left Government following an investigation into her tax affairs by Sir Keir Starmer’s independent standards adviser. Ethics watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus said ...

Scientists have created Syn57, a completely synthetic bacterium with a genetic code unlike anything in nature. Unlike all known life, which uses 64 codons to build proteins, Syn57 only uses 57 — ...

It’s that time of year when students head back into the classroom, and parents are faced with the daily challenge: What should go into the lunchbox? Nutrition experts say the start of the school year ...

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Today’s GOP fancies itself the party of Christian manliness. Don’t make me laugh; more like the king's wobbly footstool. In the ancient world, ideally, kings were shepherds who dispensed justice to ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

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 ...

Recovery housing has been a topic for council since last summer when members voted 7-1 against two rezoning requests that would have allowed a pair of recovery houses to add more residents. This will ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...