New findings show how thioesters could have been built, an important step to providing the energy needed for protein biosynthesis ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research have mapped the molecular landscape of the mouse hippocampus, a ...

Aging, neurological diseases and our bodies' stress response are all linked to the tiny power plants inside each cell known ...

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals shaped reactions, and molecules bumped into each other by chance. Out of this ...

Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab has created Seq2Symm, an open-source AI tool that helps scientists determine the 3D shapes of certain proteins, including those found in viruses. Seq2Symm uses AI to ...

When a bone grows, our bodies’ proteins help provide the structure. When a muscle tears, proteins help rebuild it. When we fight an infection, transport oxygen in our blood or send messages to a cell, ...

In biology’s standard tale of two acids — deoxyribonucleic (DNA) and ribonucleic (RNA) — RNA is merely the messenger. Its better-known cousin DNA plays the lead role, issuing genetic instructions for ...