DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Scripps scientists show that ribose may have been nature’s preferred sugar for building RNA, offering new insight into how life’s molecular foundations may have formed before biology began. Today, ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these ...

What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this mystery. Their experiments show that ribose binds more readily and ...

News Release 14-Jun-2023 Phosphate, a key building block of life, found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Washington ...

Southwest Research Institute. "Key building block for life found at Saturn's moon Enceladus." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 14 June 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 06 / 230614220041 ...