Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than ...

Paleontology has just reached a major milestone with the discovery of intact proteins in fossils dating back to the Miocene. This breakthrough, published in Nature, is based on the analysis ...

The natural protein universe is vast, and yet, going beyond and designing new proteins not observed in nature can yield new ...

What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this ...