A new examination of the way different tissues read information from genes has discovered that the brain and testes appear to be extraordinarily open to the use of rare codons to produce a given ...

As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an orchid vine spiraling around a tree in the Congo, primitive cells growing in boiling hot springs in ...

The blood-brain-barrier is both a vital defence and a formidable obstacle. It protects the brain from toxic substances that circulate in the blood, but limits the delivery of drugs that could be used ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life. When you ...

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

Anthropic PBC has had a busy start to the week, launching a new tool called Claude for Life Sciences to help with scientific research, and expanding the availability of its Claude Code agentic coding ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

The unprecedented power of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the life sciences industry, opening doors to groundbreaking drug discoveries, innovative treatments and the promise of ...

Leading theories suggest that the first energy used by life was either from the sun or from geothermal heat and chemistry at the bottom of the ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced with a thorny decision, one with weighty legal and moral implications: How should ...