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

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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, ...

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of ...

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 ...

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.] ...

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 ...

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

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