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

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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The 2018 Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, announced September 11, recognizes Joan A. Steitz, who has made pioneering contributions to the understanding of RNA biology and, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 400 million years, a leading hypothesis claims, Earth was an “RNA World,” meaning that life must’ve first replicated from RNA ...

Before RNA and after : geophysical and geochemical constraints on molecular evolution / Stephen J. Mojzsis, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, and Gustaf Arrhenius -- Prospects for understanding the origin ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed two innovative deep-learning ...

SG-NEx provides an open-access resource for the global research community, accelerating biomarker discovery and precision medicine through: Singapore – A team of scientists led by the A*STAR Genome ...

Researchers have successfully sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered from the remains of a woolly mammoth named Yuka, who died nearly 39,000 years ago. RNA degrades rapidly after death, far faster ...