At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

Scientists have may have successfully reproduced what's believed to be the first thing that ever lived on Planet Earth.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the ...

The mammalian liver has an extraordinary regenerative capacity, capable of fully restoring its mass and function after injury ...

DNA replication is the biological process by which an exact copy of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule is created and it is the basis for biological inheritance. Each of the two strands of the ...

These findings offer valuable insights into human history, population dynamics, and the eventual collapse of the Classic Maya ...

Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Chicago have uncovered a mechanism that SARS-CoV-2, ...

POLG mutations impair mitochondrial DNA replication and cause diverse mitochondrial diseases. Here, the authors show that structural differences in the POLγB subunit between humans and mice ...

UC Irvine researchers conducted a study to better understand the molecular basis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a ...