A collaborative team of four professors and several graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemical ...

Biological processes that govern our lives are many, intertwined, and often difficult to understand. They involve countless ...

For life to evolve on Earth, a bunch of complex organic molecules had to evolve a way to assemble into cells. So how did ...

A new study by researchers in Japan offers new insights into how protocells may have inherited and enriched genetic material before modern biology emerged. By exposing mixed phospholipid vesicles to ...

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic material that determines nearly every aspect of their functioning. This ...