Two separate laboratory breakthroughs have produced RNA molecules that can build copies of themselves or assemble functional structures without any help from proteins or DNA. These results offer the ...

A strand of RNA just 45 nucleotides long has been discovered to perform two key reactions required for self-replication. The ...

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 ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered a ribozyme that is shockingly small, yet ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The RNA world theory suggests that life on Earth began with RNA molecules that copied themselves. It’s believed this self-replication eventually gave rise over millions of years to DNA ...

The RNA Institute at the University at Albany’s College of Arts and Sciences presented its annual “RNA Day” celebration Friday, with a special announcement involving the employment of Artificial ...

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.] ...

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