Recent research showed that an artificially constructed self-replicating RNA system modeling primitive life at the origin of ...

A molecule so small it could fit on a Post-it note of genetic code has just pulled off something scientists have chased for decades: copying itself without any help from the protein machinery that ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...