Biologists have long known that amino acids can help stabilize proteins, for example as additives to pharmaceutical formulations. In trying to understand why this works, EPFL and MIT researchers have ...

Tomatoes, one of the world's most important horticultural crops, often struggle to grow in saline soils that limit yields and quality. A new study identifies the amino acid permease gene SlAAP6 as a ...

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...