New research from Dr. Seungjae Lee, Dr. Eric Lai, and their collaborators points to a potential opportunity to improve therapies that use small RNAs to silence disease-causing genes, potentially ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A team of researchers from Purdue University claim to have discovered the “chemistry behind the origin of life” on Earth in simple droplets of water, and they’re using strikingly strong language to ...

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Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

Life Science Cares provides a platform for companies in the life sciences industry and their employees to make a difference. It makes impactful grants to community nonprofits that are implementing ...

Two of the most intriguing questions in science are: How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you might expect that the ...

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Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the Cambrian explosion, which established a completely new Earth-life system. This ...

With the life science park as the jewel in its crown, the life sciences zone in the Changping district of Beijing is growing and branching out into novel areas of research and development. In the post ...

Purdue University’s 10-year capital plan, which was reviewed and approved by trustees on Aug. 2, includes an Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Research Building project on the university’s West ...