Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the ...

Scientists at IOCB Prague are uncovering new details of gene transcription. They have identified a previously unknown ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the Texas A&M ...

The rapid evolutionary dynamics of RNA viruses, driven by high mutation rates and the consequent formation of complex quasispecies populations, present a formidable obstacle to conventional molecular ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...