The study, titled ‘Intermediate stages in the origin of metabolism at a phosphorylating hydrothermal vent’, was published in Science Advances on 5 August.

Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.

Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one ...

Enough Universal Orlando Resort fans have committed to buying the specialty license plate that production will start. Here's ...

Genetic testing is helping doctors identify rare diseases earlier, opening the door to treatment options before symptoms appear.

For life to get started it may have depended on one of the rarest, and currently most expensive, metals on Earth.

A new study suggests bacteria and archaea independently evolved into free-living cells from a shared ancestor, challenging a ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers lead analysis of ancient DNA that yields a genomic roadmap for the restoration of the continent’s largest land mammal, pushed nearly to extinction because of past human activ ...

Blended genome–exome sequencing reads key regions deeply and the rest of the genome shallowly, cutting costs and ancestry ...

I was pregnant with my first baby when my grandmother died. The last time I saw her, she had moved into an assisted-living facility where all of her worldly possessions were condensed down to two ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...