Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 400 million years, a leading hypothesis claims, Earth was an “RNA World,” meaning that life must’ve first replicated from RNA ...
The 2018 Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, announced September 11, recognizes Joan A. Steitz, who has made pioneering contributions to the understanding of RNA biology and, ...
The RNA Institute at the University at Albany’s College of Arts and Sciences presented its annual “RNA Day” celebration Friday, with a special announcement involving the employment of Artificial ...
A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...
Japanese scientists have discovered a process by which RNA could have readily formed from a prebiotic environment on ancient Earth. The research provides evidence in support of the RNA World ...
The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...
Prospects for understanding the origin of the RNA world / Gerald F. Joyce and Leslie E. Orgel -- Reading the palimpsest: contemporary biochemical data and the RNA world / Steven A. Benner ... [et al.] ...