When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Each protein is a molecule made up of different combinations of 20 types of smaller, simpler amino acids. Protein molecules are long chains of amino acids that are folded into a three-dimensional ...

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve ...

How did scientists discover and unlock this amino acid code? Once the budding molecular biology community was convinced about the triplet code, the race to decode which triplets specified which ...

Girolline, a compound extracted from the sea sponge Pseudaxinyssa cantharella, has been investigated for possible antitumor effects and also found to have anti-malarial effects. Now, researchers have ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...