The question of how life started on Earth is rife with speculation, some ending with a delivery truck from space. Panspermia ...

Google's tool for predicting how proteins “fold” turns 5 this year. How is it fitting into biological research—and where is ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Silk is smooth, strong, and biocompatible, making it a prized material for many applications. Scientists have tried all kinds of tricks to improve silk or imbue it with new properties: They have fed ...

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...

Some experimental biologists think the key components that could allow life to survive beyond our planet might be found right here on Earth. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...

Proteins are critical components of organisms that are used and arranged in specific ways. Genes are translated into proteins, which are made of amino acids, by cellular machinery. Synthetic ...

Evolution settled on a genetic code that uses four letters to name 20 amino acids. Synthetic biologists adding new bases to DNA will be free to improve on nature — if they can. With recent innovations ...

A new study led by Peter Mac Professor Louise Cheng on fruit-fly brains has uncovered how cells that form the brain's ...

Dementia is an umbrella term for several age-related disorders that can cause cognitive problems such as dysfunction in communication, attention, memory, reasoning, or problem solving; it includes ...