The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

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A TOR-targeting cancer drug unexpectedly extends yeast lifespan through a newly discovered metabolic feedback loop.

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

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Americans are crazy about soybean oil, even more than olive oil and coconut oil. Walk along a streetside, and you may find a ...

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