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

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 ...

New study reveals how aminoacyl-thiols may have kickstarted protein synthesis, shedding light on life's origins.

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 ...

Exercise enthusiasts have long presumed animal protein to be superior to plant-derived options for muscle protein synthesis due to its essential amino acid profile. While many plant proteins are ...