Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...
Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...
The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be ...
When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s ...
Researchers develop a single genome-editing strategy to treat multiple disorders caused by nonsense mutations, promising efficient and cost-effective therapies.
Robert Hettich conducts research in ORNL's biological mass spectrometry laboratory. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists at ...
Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...
What's the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are ...
Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...
Pick two.” But a team from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has discovered a way to make vaccines that embrace ...