Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

When the first spark of life emerged on a young, ocean-covered Earth some four billion years ago, it didn’t happen at once. The process was slow and drawn out over eons, with lifeless chemicals slowly ...

Yet, for decades, scientists couldn’t figure out how these two first teamed up. Now, in a breakthrough published in Nature, ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

An international team of scientists have used advanced microscopy to image how ribosomes recruit to mRNA. Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell ...

Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could ...