The loss of muscle mass and strength poses an increasingly significant challenge for an ageing society. Prof. Kristina Norman's team at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

At first glance, it looked like a genetic error — so severe it should have crippled the animal. But instead, it helped turn ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping the building blocks of life. Their study reveals that calcium ions help determine the molecular 'handedness' (chirality) of tartaric ...

A new study has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life’s earliest molecular structures, shedding light on ...

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

Alan Herbert, explores the understanding of genome information storage, and the significance of repetitive sequences called ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

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Why are all living beings on Earth made with the same versions of certain molecules and not their mirror images? This is the ...