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 ...

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.

Scientists believe the long chains of molecules could be fragments of fatty acids, which are organic molecules that are ...

Scientists believe the long chains of molecules could be fragments of fatty acids, which are organic molecules that are chemical building blocks of life on Earth and help form cell membranes.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Each of us starts life as a single cell. To develop into a complex ... cells not only produce energy but also synthesize metabolites: molecular biological building blocks, such as amino acids, ...

The most profound missing link in the evolutionary tree is the very first one: how did living cells arise from ... that constitute the building blocks of life,” said Richard Zare, senior author ...