NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Proteins are the building blocks of life and every cell in your body contains protein. It is an important nutrient that helps ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Researchers developed ProtGPS, an AI tool that predicts protein localization in cells and how mutations affect disease. The ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...