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Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of life.

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

One group of leading biologists has been doing research on a topic that on the surface sounds kind of boring, but when you ...

A controversy among research policy scholars asks whether scientific progress is slowing down or just evolving ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

A protein called PriC allows DNA replication to proceed in Escherichia coli when the complex that usually initiates this process is compromised.

They have outlined a scheme by which two experimentally observed and prebiotically plausible reactions of amino acids could ...

This fundamental study combines in vitro reconstitution experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate how membrane lipids are transported from the outer to the inner membrane of ...