A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

Chemists have long been fascinated and frustrated by saxitoxin: a molecule that causes temporary paralysis by blocking the ...

Proteins are essential biological molecules that perform a vast array of functions crucial for life, from catalyzing biochemical reactions and transporting molecules to providing structural support ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...