These and other discoveries have left scientists wondering if any off-world amino acids might have once helped life evolve ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

Genetic engineering deployed to insert gene for human insulin into a bacterium, thus harnessing the substance for widespread ...

Proteins are made of strings of amino acids that resemble the strand in the image above. Using machine learning models, researchers were able to design the identity of amino acids on a computer to ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

One striking theme has emerged from the long march of research progress across biochemistry ... is defined by a one-dimensional string of amino acids linked together in a particular order.

Almost a century later, our discovery has revealed that the amino-acid conjugation of bile acids ... the global effects of the microbiome on the biochemistry of an entire animal.

Nitrogen is an essential component in the production of amino acids and nucleic acids ... California San Diego Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Akif Tezcan and Assistant Professor ...