It's not pleasant to shiver from the cold, but for some, it has the appeal of making the body burn more energy as heat than ...

A mission to search for the origin-of-life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, will be aided by University of Otago – Ōtākou ...

This important and compelling study establishes a robust computational and experimental framework for the large-scale identification of metallophore biosynthetic clusters. The work advances beyond ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. mTORC1 promotes cell growth when nutrients ...

Twenty canonical amino acids exist in nature, encoded by the universal genetic code and translated by the proteins and RNA that make up the ribosomal machinery. Expansion of the genetic code to new ...

Not long after U.S. housing prices reached a record high this summer—the median existing home went for US$435,000 in June—President Donald Trump said that he was considering a plan to make home sales ...

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...

Amino acids are absolutely essential to our health—and for life itself. They are the so-called “building blocks” of proteins. They play a key role in the growth, repair, and maintenance of almost ...

Using AI, scientists have built a “GPS” for cancer-fighting immune cells. It’s a molecular navigation system that helped the cells lock onto cancer, kind of like Google Maps guiding travelers to a new ...

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