Synthetic biology and minimal biology deal with the transition from inanimate to animate matter. Scientists hope that this rapidly growing field of research will not only provide them with insights ...

Scientists are calling for a halt to the creation of “mirror bacteria,” synthetic microorganisms built from the reversed ...

Proteins are the building blocks of life. Every enzyme and hormone in the ... a kind of Fermat’s Last Theorem for the field of biology. Of the 200 million proteins in nature, scientists had ...

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too ...

Although life based on right-handed amino acids would presumably work fine, the two mirror images are rarely mixed in biology ... some of life’s building blocks, such as amino acids.

Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks of life, in soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe brought back from the asteroid Ryugu, according to sources.

The latter takes a deeper look at the building blocks of biological sciences and may require higher-level classes. Students with a B.S. may go on to pursue advanced studies in biology or work in ...

Although life based on right-handed amino acids would presumably work fine, the two mirror images are rarely mixed in biology ... delivered some of life's building blocks, such as amino acids.