Origin of Life: How microbes laid the foundation for complex cells

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants

RNA Origami: Artificial Cytoskeletons to Build Synthetic Cells

Synthetic biologists create nanotubes folded from the natural RNA biomolecule

Synthetic Carbon Assimilation Surpasses Nature

New-to-Nature Pathway Outperforms Natural Pathway in Living Bacteria

New tool for synthetic biology: A milestone in the application of DNA nanotechnology

DNA nanorobots that can alter artificial cells

Scientists use harmless viruses to investigate the nervous system in frogs

New era in amphibian biology

Scientists discover "pause button" in human development

Findings have possible implications for reproductive technologies

Harnessing Mutations: A Breakthrough in Fruit Fly Genetics

A game-changing technique, TF-High-Evolutionary (TF-HighEvo), allows large-scale assessment of de-novo mutations in multicellular organisms

How to live 400 years

Genome of the longest-lived vertebrate decoded: It is huge and has special repair capabilities

Living plastics: a new solution for plastic degradation through synthetic biology

Study provides a novel method for fabricating green plastics

Strength Training Activates Cellular Waste Disposal

Regulated degradation of damaged cell components prevents heart failure and nerve diseases

Research Team Develops Important Building Block for Artificial Cells

Chemists use the blockchain to simulate over 4 billion chemical reactions essential to the origins of life

“If you asked me two years ago, I’d be thinking we’d need years for this type of work”

Surprising findings: Many genes influence alcohol and tobacco consumption

Genetic risk factor scores could someday help identify people at high risk for substance misuse

The fountain of life: Water droplets hold the secret ingredient for building life

Chemists discover key to early Earth chemistry, which could unlock ways to speed up chemical synthesis for drug discovery

Air pollution and stress alter brain development and social behavior in male mice

Smog and stress while pregnant alters brain connections in developing male mice, but not females, leading to autism-like social behavior

Nanotechnology enables visualization of RNA structures at near-atomic resolution

Combination of nucleic acid nanotechnology and cryo-EM gives unprecedented insights into the structures of large and small RNAs

Buttoned Up Biomolecules

Click reaction for living systems: bioorthogonal hydroamination of activated linear alkynes

Structure of virus that infects bacteria in hot springs is revealed

Theory unlocks the secret behind protein-membrane interactions

Understanding cell behavior better by elucidating how proteins work with cell membranes

CRISPR/Cas9 shown to limit impact of certain parasitic diseases

Limiting the impact of schistosomiasis and liver fluke infection