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The reaction generates amino acids and nucleic acids, the building blocks of proteins and DNA. Four billion years ago, the Earth looked very different than it does today, devoid of life and covered by ...

As people grow older, the same brain chemistry that once supported sharp thinking and stable mood can quietly start to work ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dietary amino acid patterns correlate with an increased risk of chronic kidney disease, according to data ...

DNA is the poster child for high-specificity binding. As long as their base sequences match, two complementary strands of DNA can navigate through a sea of biomolecules, find each other, and hold fast ...

The loss of muscle mass and strength poses an increasingly significant challenge for an aging society. Prof. Kristina Norman's team at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE) ...

DNA origami cages constrain individual proteins toward preferred orientations on electrodes, dramatically improving ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...