“The elements are like the alphabet of life. The language of life is created from the right combination of letters or characters.” This is how chemistry professor Chris Chang sees chemical biology, as ...

Exactly how life first emerged from non-living matter is one of the most enduring mysteries of science. In a new study, Japanese scientists have created self-replicating protocells in the lab, which ...

Imagine packing all the people in the world into the Great Salt Lake in Utah—all of us jammed shoulder to shoulder, yet also charging past one another at insanely high speeds. That gives you some idea ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

In this review article the authors Yang Hai, Mei?Yan Wei, Chang?Yun Wang, Yu?Cheng Gu and Chang?Lun Shao from Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China and Syngenta Jealott's Hill International ...

The lab is located on Saadiyat Island, which is close to the long, pale shoreline where the Gulf air lingers long after ...

LIFE ON EARTH may have originated with DNA's cousin RNA, but how the modern world evolved from the RNA world is still mostly unknown. Now, in a new study published last week in the journal Nature, ...

Allan Albig receives funding from the National Institute of Health. Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside ...

Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From complex organics to minerals linked with microbial activity, the Red Planet ...