On their own, acidic ingredients often have a tangy, sour flavor. In cooking, acid is often used as a flavor enhancer. A ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is?

Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

New findings show how thioesters could have been built, an important step to providing the energy needed for protein ...

Tremendous progress in the field of prebiotic chemistry has shown how simple compounds available on ancient Earth could have given rise to the molecular building blocks of life 1. The current ...