What if a complex material could reshape itself in response to a simple chemical signal? A team of physicists from the ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

Scripps scientists show that ribose may have been nature’s preferred sugar for building RNA, offering new insight into how life’s molecular foundations may have formed before biology began. Today, ...

What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this mystery. Their experiments show that ribose binds more readily and ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

Tiny fat bubbles carrying gene therapy have successfully repaired DNA in the lungs and liver of animals with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency — a promising leap toward treating humans ...

The creation of a new magnetic molecule could pave the way to build new, stamp-sized hard drives capable of holding the equivalent of 40,000 CDs' worth of music—that's three years of nonstop tunes!

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers to some of life’s biggest questions. Among them are strange compounds ...