No one saw the blob takeover coming. In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying ...

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In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

Chromatin condensates are made of hundreds of thousands of fast-moving molecules. When they come together, they display emergent properties that do not exist in the molecules individually. These group ...

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What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this mystery. Their experiments show that ribose binds more readily and ...

Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.