NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...
NASA's Unexpected Discovery of The Largest Organics on Mars Explained
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.
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How did the first cells form on Earth? Scientists think they finally figured it out
About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...
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Membrane lipid homeostasis in bacteria
Modification of phosphatidylglycerol by the attachment of a lysine residue to the glycerol ... types of fatty acids that are produced by the biosynthetic pathway and altering the structures ...
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An ancient volcano victim's brain turned to glass. Scientists now think they know how
Like obsidian, in fact, their edges are sharp but the shards have an almost twirly shape and lack the crystalline structure ... are transformed into glycerol and fatty acids.
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Peripheral membrane proteins, for example some signalling proteins, are tethered by an anchor, via a fatty acid, prenyl group ... cryo-EM to solve the protein structure of the enzyme in complex ...