The chemical components crucial to the start of life on Earth may have primed and protected each other in never-before-realized ways, according to new research led by University of Washington scientists.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 29, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- D-Ribose is just a small molecule - but an extremely important one for us life forms. It is astounding that the crystal structure of ribose is not included among the over 500,000 structures that have been ...
Materials Science
Jul 8, 2010
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For decades, chemists considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin, but more recent research has called into question the plausibility of such ...
Biochemistry
Jan 31, 2012
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A researcher from the University of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine’s Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research is part of an international team which has discovered a new metabolic pathway for the production ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 13, 2011
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Attaching chains of the small molecule ADP-ribose to proteins is important for a cell's survival and the repair of DNA damage, making this process a promising target for the development of new cancer drugs. Researchers have ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 12, 2013
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