Predicted 3D structures of the ancestral nitrogenase DDKK complex from oldest to modern.Holly Rucker/UW Madison NASA-supported scientists have ...

The origin of life from Earth's primordial chemistry has long fascinated and perplexed us. Generations of scientists have endeavored to understand how complex biochemistry developed from organic ...

The immune system must maintain a delicate balance to defend against harmful threats while avoiding excessive inflammation.

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A new study confirms this long-held theory, discovering that 60 percent of defective genetic pairs impacting the production ...

Several firms across Europe are developing and launching new technologies for measuring the nitrogen requirements of arable crops. Improving nitrogen use ...

An international research team has succeeded in deciphering a key mechanism that controls the growth of pancreatic cancers.

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

A research team reports that advances in protein design—especially when combined with artificial intelligence—are rapidly ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

A brand-new paper has just been published that claims to challenge the century-old dogma that Alzheimer’s disease is ...