New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

Scientists who study molecular structures have known this ever since James Watson saw Photo 51 and went on to deduce DNA's structure with ... on images of important molecules to confirm their ...

AlphaFold 3, unveiled to the world on May 9, is the latest version of an algorithm designed to predict the structures of proteins—vital molecules used by all life—from the "instruction code ...

Fluctuations in ancient Earth’s environment might have propelled the chemical complexity that laid the foundation for life.

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

coli, a simple model organism, to map how metabolites—small molecules essential for life—interact with key ... and artificial intelligence-driven structural modeling—developed by the Kozakov ...

Mirror molecules are one thing; mirror life, however, is quite another. Mirror life would be a lab-created organism, perhaps a bacterium, that could replicate itself, something a mirror molecule can’t ...

DeepMind has unveiled the third version of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered structural biology ... proteins — large ...

Evidence is mounting about what may be a wealth of organic molecules – a potential indicator of life – on Mars, with new findings from Nasa’s Perseverance rover suggesting the presence of a ...

In biology, the binding of cellular proteins to molecules ... and many models in the emerging field of computational design demand extensive information about the protein structure and the pocket ...