New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

Fluctuations in ancient Earth’s environment might have propelled the chemical complexity that laid the foundation for life.

Oligonucleotide therapies are among the most promising biological therapeutics. They target disease at a different stage of ...

See how cells compare along a relative scale axis with other molecules, tissues, and biological structures (blue arrow at bottom). Note that a micrometer (μm) is also known as a micron.

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

“Driven by curiosity and plausible applications, some researchers had begun work toward creating lifeforms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules,” the researchers wrote in a ...

Another challenge in solving this puzzle was the enormous range of biological functions researchers found for prostaglandins. These molecules promoted pain and inflammation, regulated pregnancy ...

A research team led by Dr. Huang Qing from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...