Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

Not only does Bennu contain evidence of ancient pools of liquid water — it also carries minerals crucial to life, amino acids, and the five nucleobases for DNA and RNA. As asteroids crash into ...

The boundaries of computer technology are being redefined as biology merges with electronics. At the forefront of this ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

The research shows that as long as essential genes remain intact, our genomes can tolerate significant structural changes, ...

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more ...

Riboswitches are RNA sensors that allow bacteria to sense and respond to their environment. Here, Bushhouse et al. demonstrate that the sensitivity of several riboswitches can be tuned by ...

Symptoms of Huntington's disease appear late in life. Research reveals how DNA repeats grow toxic over time, explaining the ...

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