A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...
The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...
Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...
When scientists sliced into a block of Siberian permafrost and pulled out a woolly mammoth nicknamed Yuka, they expected to ...
RNA probably came before DNA, serving as the storehouse of genetic information and driving chemical reactions; a ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The RNA world theory suggests that life on Earth began with RNA molecules that copied themselves. It’s believed this self-replication eventually gave rise over millions of years to DNA ...
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.] ...
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