RNA probably came before DNA, serving as the storehouse of genetic information and driving chemical reactions; a ...

Scientists have long believed that RNA may have been the first molecule capable of storing information and evolving, a ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

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This important theoretical study examines the possibility of encoding genomic information in a collective of short overlapping strands (e.g., the Virtual Circular Genome (VCG) model). The study ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Develop an LLM agent–driven pipeline that generates and analyzes non coding RNA sequences, under guidance from human-designed prompts. Each pipeline automatically integrates RNA structural features, ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...