Scientists may have found a clue to one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the origin of life: how fragile RNA molecules could gather and survive before cells existed. New research shows that RNA is ...

RNA and DNA are chemical cousins. But one tiny difference between them (an extra oxygen atom repeated along RNA’s backbone) ...

Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies derived from one gene active in human brain cells appear to have taken that ...

A simple urine test developed by researchers at Stanford Medicine and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System can diagnose ...

Abnormal RNA processing may contribute to an unexplainable CD36 deficiency that can play a role in the development of FNAIT.

A new full-length transcriptome study reveals extensive alternative splicing and identifies three MYB113 genes, including the ...

The Okazaki Fragments That Solved the Mystery of DNA Replication1. The Mystery That Could Not Be Solved by the Discovery of ...

Death does not make DNA disappear. Long after the heart has stopped and the brain has lost function, genetic material can remain inside cells and tissues. What changes is the environment around it: ...

Blueprint of Planetary Intelligence] Vol. 35 The Dawn of the RNA World: The Dual Drive of Catalysis and ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric ...

Two studies published in a single week are rewriting what scientists think they know about disease — one about where outbreaks get reported, and ...

Anthropic says Claude has helped researchers find a previously unknown enzyme system in bacterial DNA. They call it ARTs, or ...