Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...

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

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Two separate research teams have found ways to create short chains of amino acids, termed peptides, for the purpose of ...

No doubt, “collagen skin care” is a buzzy phrase in the beauty world. Along with retinol and peptides, when collagen is on a ...

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

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...