Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

The paper investigates a potential cause of a type of severe epilepsy that develops in early life because of a defect in a gene called KCNQ2. The significance is fundamental because it substantially ...

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, New York 11439, United States ...

Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Chemistry and Molecular ...

Through structure-guided evolution, a mutant form of UGT94D1 with significantly enhanced catalytic activity was created; this mutant, UGT94D1-F119I/D188P exhibited a 6.33-fold improvement in catalytic ...

For extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) staining, the bacterial and the EPS were stained with SYTO 9 (Molecular Probes ... with hybridization buffer [20 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.0), 0.9 M NaCl, 20% formamide, ...