The mystery, which has evaded scientists for more than five decades, can be explained with rather simple chemistry, according ...

Researchers have revealed early conditions under which RNA and amino acids may have combined, giving rise to the origin of ...

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) ...

Amino acids have been around far longer than life has on our planet. We've even found amino acids — plus all the five major ingredients of DNA and RNA called nucleotides — on asteroid samples plucked ...

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests ...

LAHORE: A Pakistani researcher working at Algoma University in Canada has contributed to a major international study that uncovers new layers of complexity in the human genetic code and protein ...

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. Researchers found Yersinia pestis, ...

Chemists at UCL (University College London) have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin ...