The origin of life from Earth's primordial chemistry has long fascinated and perplexed us. Generations of scientists have endeavored to understand how complex biochemistry developed from organic ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Scientists have discovered a clever way to turn carrot processing leftovers into a nutritious and surprisingly appealing protein. By growing edible fungi on carrot side streams, researchers produced ...

A study by the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena shows that the chemical composition of proteins in the brain undergoes fundamental changes with aging. In particular, ...

A forested hill and clouds are in the background of an image of a shallow pool of steaming water, with the ground underneath colored in shades of beige, red, and brown. Life may have first emerged in ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack a stable 3D structure under ...

Proteins are among the most studied molecules in biology, yet new research shows they can still hold surprising secrets. Researchers have discovered previously undetected chemical bonds within ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Free energy predictions are useful in protein design and computer-aided drug design.

The American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI) established a revised new definition for the class of dairy ingredients known as Whey Protein Hydrolysates (WPH). This updated definition builds on the ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. Compared with enzymes, protein catalysts are simpler, more stable at high temperatures, and can also be used in environmentally friendly organic solvents ...