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

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 ...

A study from Würzburg reveals that pox viruses have developed a unique strategy to rapidly multiply after infecting a host cell. The findings uncover a previously unknown role for a well-known ...

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 ...

In the fast-evolving field of medical science, a new artificial intelligence model may be about to change the way mRNA-based ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

People are still debating whether the mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines remains in the body longer than it should. Some say it ...

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

Proteins can conduct electrons efficiently over tens of nanometers when contact resistance is removed, revealing their ...