The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...
In the early 1980s, David Gilmour, now an emeritus biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Pennsylvania State University, joined the laboratory of geneticist and biochemist John Lis as a ...
DNA-nanoparticle motors are exactly as they sound: tiny artificial motors that use the structures of DNA and RNA to propel motion by enzymatic RNA degradation. Essentially, chemical energy is ...
Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...
Chemical structure of guanine, showing its double-ring purine structure and the functional groups involved in hydrogen bonding with cytosine. (Image: Public Domain) Guanine has the chemical formula ...
Researchers analyzed gene expression and network connectivity across eight human tissues and found shared aging-related ...
02 February 2023, Hesse, Marburg: A press spokeswoman points to a plasmid model at the Görzhausen I Biontech site. Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/picture ...
A new research paper featured as the cover of Volume 17, Issue 12 of Aging-US was published on December 22, 2025, titled “A ...
A forested hill and clouds are in the background of an image of a shallow pool of steaming water, with the ground underneath colored in shades of beige, red, and brown. Life may have first emerged in ...
Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...