Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Nucleic acids have become important diagnostic ... linked cytidine and adenosine analogues and use them as building blocks for the synthesis of reactive RNA probes for bioconjugations with primary ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Researchers find high-fat diets set off metabolic dysfunction in cells, leading to weight gain, but these effects can be ...

Scientists have may have successfully reproduced what's believed to be the first thing that ever lived on Planet ...

One of the longstanding challenges in chemical biology has been finding ways to directly observe biological processes at work ...

The adsorption of nucleic acid components onto the serpentinite-hosted ... Furthermore, the detection of the infrared spectroscopic features of such building blocks of life adsorbed on brucite at very ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...