The researchers said that their concerns are not about stifling innovation but about ensuring scientific progress aligns with ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and ...

On a molecular level, life as we know it has a surprising bias. The building blocks of life — DNA, RNA, and proteins — have a ...

Researchers have been fascinated by animals’ ability to create such huge variety from two simple building blocks, but until now there was no satisfactory explanation for this wealth of crystals in the ...

Within a few decades, scientists will be able create a microbe that could cause an unstoppable pandemic, devastating crop ...

Although life based on right-handed amino acids would presumably work fine, the two mirror images are rarely mixed in biology ...

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.

Breakthroughs in synthetic biology could create mirror versions of natural molecules, with devastating consequences for life ...

The new Dogma meets Thomas Kuhn’s definition of a paradigm shift. The DNA/RNA Dogma is sufficiently unprecedented to attract ...

The University of Sydney Nano Institute team employs "DNA origami," a technique harnessing DNA's natural folding abilities, ...