A subtle biochemical alteration can reprogram signals that herald the termination of protein translation into signals encoding amino acids at the level of messenger RNA — and without altering the corresponding DNA. See Letter p.395
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Ferré-D'Amaré, A. Stop the nonsense. Nature 474, 289–290 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474289a
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