A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

A new study brings scientists closer to uncovering how life began on Earth.

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

Scientists at UCL have demonstrated how ribonucleic acid and amino acids could have spontaneously linked together four ...

Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

Earlier efforts to attach amino acids to RNA had relied on highly reactive compounds that quickly degraded in water and ...

Chemists have developed a protocol to rapidly produce protein chains up to 164 amino acids long. The flow-based technology could speed up drug development and allow scientists to design novel protein ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have trapped the ribosome, a protein-building molecular machine essential to all life, in a key transitional state that has long eluded ...