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

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

Saguenay, Quebec--- First Phosphate Corp. announces that its recent white paper submission to the United States Department of Defense Defense Industrial Base Consortium for securing a North ...

In a global first, scientists have used advanced base editing to repair a deadly gene mutation in a newborn, marking a major leap forward in the treatment of rare inherited metabolic diseases.

DNA is made up of four chemical "letters"—the nucleotide bases A, G, T and C. Mutations in this sequence cause thousands of human diseases, yet until recently, gene editing could only fix a ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Tiny flashes of microlightning in the water vapor kicked off a series of chemical reactions that produced some very complex molecules: the amino acid glycine, the nucleotide base uracil, and others.