Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

For centuries, humans have looked to the stars, the oceans, and even the tiniest cells to answer one impossible question: why does life exist at all? From philosophers to physicists, theories have ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise.

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

The developers of OpenFold3 have released an early version of the tool, which they hope will one day perform on par with DeepMind’s protein-structure model.