The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

Regents of the Univ. of California v. Broad Inst., Inc., No. 2022-1594, 2025 WL 1363125 (Fed. Cir. May 12, 2025) - On May 12, ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 patent landscape remains complex and unsettled. The Federal Circuit’s latest decision in University of California v.

3 This discovery implies that prokaryotes may have possessed more advanced cellular structures and functions than previously thought, potentially influencing how the first eukaryotic cells emerged.

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome ... copper metabolism and how cells divide their genetic material.

The eukaryote’s debut transformed the planet. Today, all complex multicellular life — indeed, all life that any of us regularly see — is made of eukaryotic cells. No one knows for sure how that first ...