New research offers a potential explanation for the formation of early Earth protocells. Few questions have captivated ...

Lipids, or fats, are essential to life. They form the membranes around cells, protecting them from the outside. In nature, there is an enormous diversity of lipids, with each organism having its own ...

Scientists believe that simple molecules of short fatty chains of fewer than 10 carbon-carbon bonds (complex fatty chains can ...

While exploring how the flies adapted to such conditions, Acharya found increased levels of an enzyme— CG8093 —in their guts.