What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

Kiran Musunuru, a University of Pennsylvania cardiologist and leading gene-editing researcher, thinks it’s possible. Musunuru cofounded Verve Therapeutics, a company developing a therapy that uses ...