These conditions would have allowed the formation of complex molecules essential for the ... To go further: what is a nucleic acid base? Nucleic acid bases are essential molecules for the structure of ...

For liquid-liquid phase separation to occur in cells, the polymers that make up membraneless organelles—typically highly flexible proteins and nucleic acids—must exceed what is called their saturation ...

Exosomes are gaining recognition for their potential applications in medicine, particularly in wound healing and inflammation reduction.

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Among the various derivatives of phenoxyacetic acids, 2,4-D (salts and esters) and MCPA (salts) are widely used as herbicides ...

Brian T. Feeley, MD, FAAOS, was bestowed with the 2025 Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award for his research in ...

During translation, ribosomes can pause on the nucleic acid. Researchers showed that collisions from incoming proteins get ...

The Nucleic Acids Institute is dedicated to understanding the chemical and biological basis for nucleic acid function, and to developing new and powerful nucleic acids based therapeutic and ...

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a ...

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have ...