Damaged mitochondria are recycled within cells. Scientists find a link between cellular health and diseases like Parkinson’s ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks of life— in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid named Bennu. What can this discovery reveal ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny ... figuring out where the complex chemicals that make up living cells came from. That includes things like the lipids in our ...

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...

A French team of scientists from the Laboratory for Atmospheres and Space Observations discovered the largest organic ...

Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...

Göpfrich, who along with her team, "Biophysical Engineering of Life," conducts research ... RNA origami is that synthetic cells can manufacture their building blocks by themselves," stresses ...