Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have observed the formation of nanocavities in montmorillonite clay ...

Origin of Life: Quantum Chemistry Solves One of Genetics' Biggest Mysteries Using Amino Acids From Space Published Feb 02, 2018 at 12:42 PM EST Updated Feb 02, 2018 at 4:25 PM EST ...

Alpha-keto acids are the precursors that living cells today use to make amino acids. The ammonia is a source of nitrogen, which the conversion process requires. The cyanide performs the conversion ...

Research presented in March 2023 found that asteroids like that one could have gained amino acids that formed from ionizing chemistry in the pre-solar nebula that eventually produced our sun ...

Using quantum chemical methods, a team of researchers has solved one of the oldest puzzles of biochemistry. They uncovered why there are 20 amino acids that form the basis of all life today, even ...

This amino acid serves as a ready target for functionalization reactions that could produce silks with a range of novel properties (ACS Synth. Biol. 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00437 ).

Researchers have engineered bacteria to synthesize an amino acid that contains a rare functional group that others have shown to have implications in the regulation of our immune system. The ...

Possible Key to Life's Chemistry Revealed in 50-Year-Old Experiment. News. ... Jeffrey Bada holds a preserved sample containing amino acids created by a 1958 experiment done by his mentor Stanley ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognises the feat of building new proteins and predicting proteins’ complex structures Nobel for determining protein structure recognises a big advance June ...