Experiments show amino acids can cling to interstellar dust, survive heating, and reach planets - supporting a cosmic origin ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

The findings, which detail how amino acids shaped the genetic code of ancient microorganisms, shed light on the mystery of how life began on Earth. "You see the same amino acids in every organism, ...

Proteins are critical components of organisms that are used and arranged in specific ways. Genes are translated into proteins, which are made of amino acids, by cellular machinery. Synthetic ...

Proteins help compose many of the essential parts of an organism, and to make them, a cell must first generate mRNA from the genes in the genome that code for protein. Cellular machines called ...

An international and interdisciplinary team working at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has modeled the evolution of one of biology's most fundamental sets ...

Scientists created a variant of the E. coli bacteria with an entirely synthetic genome, according to a new paper. Building and replacing the large entire genome yet was just one goal of the team from ...