A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein fragments called dipeptides. By analyzing billions of dipeptide sequences ...
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We may have been wrong about the origin of life all along, scientists say
Something written in every biology textbook of the past 70 years may need a rewrite. Not because the science was careless, or ...
When a bone grows, our bodies’ proteins help provide the structure. When a muscle tears, proteins help rebuild it. When we fight an infection, transport oxygen in our blood or send messages to a cell, ...
A forested hill and clouds are in the background of an image of a shallow pool of steaming water, with the ground underneath colored in shades of beige, red, and brown. Life may have first emerged in ...
Nearly all known life builds proteins from the same alphabet of 20 canonical amino acids. Strung together in different orders, those building blocks form the proteins that make cells work. In a new ...
We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...
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