Open the Youtube video The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. To get life started, you need a ...

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of ...

A forested hill and clouds are in the background of an image of a shallow pool of steaming water, with the ground underneath colored in shades of beige, red, and brown. Life may have first emerged in ...

To ensure that protein production in our cells runs smoothly, the protein complex NAC slows down the rate of protein ...