Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

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 have uncovered the enzyme behind chromothripsis, a chaotic chromosome-shattering event seen in about one in four ...

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be ...

From vaccines and diagnostics to emerging gene-based therapies, RNA molecules are now central to modern medicine. But as their use continues to grow, so does a fundamental challenge: producing RNA ...

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

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...