and discovered that we have enzymes that can alter the structure of dietary fatty acids as needed. These enzymes can add carbons, to increase the length of the fatty acid chain, or insert or ...

Both types of membranes have a specialized structure that facilitates their ... a phosphate group, and two fatty acid chains. Glycerol is a three-carbon molecule that functions as the backbone ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

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

We can’t say the molecules are the product of life, but the findings indicate if Mars had life billions of years ago, the ...