How did scientists discover and unlock this amino acid code? Once the budding molecular biology community was convinced about the triplet code, the race to decode which triplets specified which ...

Not surprisingly, though, the endogenous translation machinery does not efficiently decode quadruplet codons ... more than 200 different unnatural amino acids into a protein.

became the first to decode the message. Ken, sharing an image of his discovery, told The Independent, "My decoded message was ...