In a peer-reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “ last universal common ancestor .” The ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

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, ...

A new study is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins of life and the building blocks that led to the first genes.

Breast cancer is not a single disease but multiple ones, each carrying varying degrees of risk for endangering women’s health. In recent years, many researchers have been focused on DCIS: ductal ...

Chemists at UCL 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 life four billion years ...

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