Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components—the rotor and stators. Despite ...

Protein complex in bacterial cell membrane acts like a rotary motor to recruit DNA-degrading enzymes to defend against phage ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is actively removed during spermatogenesis in a conserved process that enforces the uniparental ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

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 ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Clues in tiny grains of asteroid dust Researchers have spent thousands of hours peering through special electron microscopes ... ingredients — like the DNA nucleobases that the NASA team ...

Tim McCoy, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History curator of meteorites (center) and Rob Wardell (left), museum specialist of mineral sciences, load a sample into the scanning electron ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...