During evolution, flexible amino acids are added, some useful, some not. Over time, a "floppy" region forms at the center of the molecule making the protein more flexible to bend and bind to the ...

Researchers developed a kind of all-in-one adhesive electrode that solves one of the major issues facing advancing flexible 2D supercapacitors - making the components work synergistically.

The discovery that brain ageing may be driven by jammed-up protein factories could lead to better ways to help us stay sharp ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than ...

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. There are 20 different ones your body needs. Your body can make 11 of them. But you need to get the other nine from your diet. Those nine you need ...

The 20 canonical amino acids can be divided into “early” and “late” groups based on when they were added to the amino acid alphabet. Starting from a core of seven early amino acids, Klára ...

Amino acids, which are a key ingredient of life, could have originally been made in interstellar molecular clouds like that from which the solar system formed, before winding up in asteroids that ...

Scientists are making a case for adjusting our understanding of how exactly genes first emerged. For a while, there’s been a consensus about the order in which the building-block amino acids ...

Many amino acids have been detected in meteorites, while the Rosetta mission detected the amino acid glycine in comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko; amino acids were also found in the sample of ...

Insights into the formation and evolution of extraterrestrial amino acids from the asteroid Ryugu. Nature Communications, 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37107-6 ...