DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Scripps scientists show that ribose may have been nature’s preferred sugar for building RNA, offering new insight into how life’s molecular foundations may have formed before biology began. Today, ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these ...

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 ...

Researchers have now found evidence of a stunning overlap between two groups of biological molecules that were thought to be unrelated. Sugar molecules called glycans are known to be important for a ...

“We found the RNA sugar ribose, but did not find deoxyribose, which is the DNA sugar,” Furukawa says. “This is the first geological evidence that shows geological superiority of RNA sugar ...

Now that ribose has been detected in two 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites (but 2-deoxyribose, the primary sugar in DNA, has not), scientists can make a stronger case that sugar from space bombarded ...

Sugar molecules called glycans, which attach to proteins and lipids to regulate how they fold and function, also bind to RNA, reports a study posted to bioRxiv this week (bioRxiv 2019, DOI: 10. ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) in Würzburg have identified a protein and a group of small ribonucleic ...