Ozempic has been making headlines for its remarkable success in treating obesity and diabetes. Yet it is just one in a ...

Inspired by the simple mechanism of a seesaw—when one side goes up, the other side goes down—researchers asked an intriguing ...

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be ...

The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which control practically all cellular processes within our bodies. The roles of proteins are critical for the function, structure and regulation of ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.