A significant advancement in molecular engineering has produced a large, hollow spherical shell nanostructure through the self-assembly of peptides and metal ions, report researchers from Japan. This ...

Cells have a trick called splicing. They can cut a gene's message into pieces and decide which fragments to keep. By mixing ...

In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read ...

How did life originate? Ancient proteins may hold important clues. Every organism on Earth is made up of proteins. Although ...