When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Research shows that low protein intake is also a risk factor for bone injuries, such as stress fractures. One study on female ...

Essential amino acids are organic compounds that your body needs to function. You can get them from certain foods. Amino acids, often referred to as the building blocks of proteins, are compounds ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, ...

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...