Scientists decipher how two bacterial species cooperate to avoid being eaten

Back in 2021, Pierre Stallforth and his team at the Leibniz-Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) showed that bacteria of the genera Pseudomonas and Paenibacillus ...

Could the discovery of a tiny RNA molecule explain the origins of life?

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 find small RNAs that can make copies of themselves

Another factor related to their length is that they tend to form very complex structures, with many different areas of the ...
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Asteroid Bennu reveals a new pathway to life’s chemistry

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...