Somewhere in a sample of ordinary pond water, a single-celled organism has been quietly breaking one of biology’s most fundamental rules. Condylostoma magnum, a free-living ciliate barely visible to ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University led by Chen Peng from College of ...

Genetic rule broken: Researchers found ciliates that treat stop codons as amino acid instructions, defying the universal genetic code. Two remarkable cases: Condylostoma magnum reassigns all three ...