Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals shaped reactions, and molecules bumped into each other by chance.

New findings show how thioesters could have been built, an important step to providing the energy needed for protein ...

Aging, neurological diseases and our bodies' stress response are all linked to the tiny power plants inside each cell known ...

02 February 2023, Hesse, Marburg: A press spokeswoman points to a plasmid model at the Görzhausen I Biontech site. Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/picture ...

A recent study published in the journal Aging sheds light on how aging interferes with the brain’s ability to produce key proteins, potentially triggering a cascade of dysfunctions that contribute to ...

Scientists used AI to design viruses for the first time, creating bacteriophages capable of hunting down and killing harmful ...

Fargo, ND, is probably better known for its blizzards, floods, and eponymous TV series than its biotechnological prowess. Yet for the past 25 years, Aldevron, a manufacturer of DNA, RNA, and proteins, ...