A new study is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins of life and the building blocks that led to the first genes ..

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early Earth. Instead of requiring high temperatures or complex catalysts ...

Meteorites frequently bombarded the surface of the early Earth. Could these impacts have provided the energy and materials to form the basic building blocks of life?

A pioneering research lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has achieved another milestone using light-driven enzymatic reactions to convert simple biological building blocks into ...

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