Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist?

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Achieving Dirac's 'bottom-up' understanding of chemistry has become a celebration as well as an institutionalization of the interplay between theory and experiment at the core of physical chemistry.

The walls of the living cell consist partly of the fatty substances called phospholipids. It appears that some of these substances play an active role in the transport of other substances across ...

How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary for cells to thrive and assemble into complex ...