An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. But how do memories last when the molecules that ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid. In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks ...

Defining the molecular building blocks of life provides a conceptual framework for biology that has the potential to enhance education and research by promoting the integration of knowledge.

What makes these bits the ‘cosmic alcohol’? Methanol is a simple alcohol that plays a crucial role in the formation of organic molecules like amino acids, the essential building blocks of life.

Earth’s primordial soup lacked the building blocks of life – a phrase describing the most basic biological and chemical units needed to support living things, elements like oxygen and carbon.

From the smallest trace elements to the largest building blocks, each piece of the puzzle is vital for creating and sustaining human life.