The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique amino acid that’s added to […]
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NASA Open Science Data Repository and Physical Sciences Informatics – Now Unified
The NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) and Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) provide open access to biological and physical science datasets from spaceflight and ground studies, enabling data reuse for […]
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Tracing The Origin Of Earth Life’s Genetic Code To Early Protein Structures
Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to […]
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Planetary Bioinformatics: Breaking Through Biology’s Data Wall On Earth
Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]
![Adapted from fig. 1.8 of [2]. Modern protein synthesis; the anticodon at one end of a tRNA molecule binds to its complementary codon in mRNA derived directly from the genome. Sequence-to-sequence translation is not highly parallel, in this model, and the process can be characterized in terms of the Shannon uncertainty in the transmission of information between codon machinery and amino acid machinery. -- biorxiv.org](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Biochemical-%E2%80%98Cambrian-explosion.png?resize=1200%2C720&ssl=1)
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Biochemical ‘Cambrian’ Explosion-implosions: The Generation And Pruning Of Genetic Codes
Tlusty’s topological analysis of the genetic code suggests ecosystem changes in available metabolic free energy that predated the aerobic transition enabled a punctuated sequence of increasingly complex genetic codes and […]
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Structural Enzymology, Phylogenetics, Differentiation, and Symbolic Reflexivity at the Dawn of Biology
Translation of symbols in one chemical language into another defined genetics. Yet, the co-linearity of codons and amino acids is so commonplace an idea that few even ask how it […]
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ChemOrigins: A Community Curated Database For Origins Of Life Chemistry
The origin of life is one of the most compelling questions in science. While experimental prebiotic chemistry has produced a wide range of reactions and plausible pathways, the resulting data […]
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Basecamp Research Announces Breakthrough Discovery of Over One Million New Species
Yielding Enormous New Database Purpose-Built for Generative Foundation Models in Biology Basecamp Research, an AI company dedicated to using nature to solve the most pressing challenges in the life sciences, […]
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600 Million Years Of Stress Guide Planet Evolution on Earth
Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from […]
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Genome Modeling And Design Across All Domains Of Life With Evo 2
All of life encodes information with DNA. While tools for sequencing, synthesis, and editing of genomic code have transformed biological research, intelligently composing new biological systems would also require a […]