The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...

While humans have an esthetic liking for symmetry in everything, nature prefers asymmetric, single-handed forms when it comes to amino acids—the building blocks of proteins, and, by extension, all ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for enteroviruses ...

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The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic greatly accelerated the development of messenger RNA technology by demonstrating the safety, effectiveness and scalability of mRNA-based vaccines 1. Writing in Nature, Zhang et ...