The story of a cancer-fighting molecule that took half a century to build is really a story about how slow, stubborn ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for everything to come. Scientists have now recreated the first molecule ever to form ...

Despite these advances, the synthesis of DNA nanostructures has remained a largely manual and time-consuming process. Traditional approaches often require the precise mixing of hundreds of unique DNA ...

Hans Renata and Kenta Yokoi in Renata’s lab at Rice (Credit: Alex Becker/Rice University). A team of chemists from Scripps Research and Rice University has unveiled a novel method to simplify the ...

For years, ETH researchers have been investigating a molecular complex that plays a key role in protein synthesis. They have ...

There’s been this dream for decades. What if we could just print out an entire gene directly, one base at a time? —Daniel Lin-Arlow, Ansa Biotechnologies As scientists set their sights on cell and ...