NASA has confirmed that dust from the ancient asteroid Bennu contains tryptophan, an amino acid tied both to human mood and ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

A new study suggests that arginine, a common amino acid, may help reduce the brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...

High-resolution structures explain the mechanism of human PNPase and provide insights into mutations causing hereditary ...

The Federal Circuit recently held an asserted patent was not entitled to its priority date because the priority application lacked written ...

This study provides useful insights into addressing the question of whether the prevalence of autoimmune disease could be driven by sex differences in the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, correlating ...

Chemists have long been fascinated and frustrated by saxitoxin: a molecule that causes temporary paralysis by blocking the ...

In five years since AlphaFold's debut, it has transformed basic biochemical research. But its long-term effect on drug ...