A 45-nucleotide strand of RNA can now synthesize both its mirror-image complement and a copy of itself, bringing scientists closer than ever to demonstrating how life could have emerged from chemistry ...

One of the greatest mysteries of our planet is how a soup of lifeless chemicals transformed into the first living cell. There are several competing theories about where this happened, from frozen ...

DNA DSBs are toxic lesions that are highly detrimental for the maintenance of genomic integrity, holding the potential to generate mutations, copy number alterations and translocations. DSBs are ...

Coronavirus (CoV) possesses numerous functional cis-acting elements in its positive-strand genomic RNA. Although most of these RNA structures participate in viral replication, the functions of RNA ...

The RNA world hypothesis posits that molecules made up of ribonucleic acids (RNA) are responsible for kickstarting evolution and all life on Earth – and scientists just discovered a crucial new piece ...