New Scientist on MSN
RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this ...
DNA, the blueprint of life, is best known for its fundamental role as genetic material—storing and transmitting biological information through the precise sequence of its bases. For decades, this ...
The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, ...
Morning Overview on MSN
All life on Earth traces back to 1 ancestor, but some genes are even older
Every organism alive on Earth, from oak trees to octopuses to the bacteria in our gut, belongs to a single extended family. Genetic evidence points back to one ancestral cell, a last common forebear ...
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