A Coast Guard chopper plucked a stranded boater and his pet dog from their shipwrecked sailing boat — and it’s all on ...

A 45-nucleotide strand of RNA can now synthesize both its mirror-image complement and a copy of itself, bringing scientists closer than ever to demonstrating how life could have emerged from chemistry ...

Different DNA Structures Nucleate the Folding of Proteins to form specific complexes that modulate the readout of ...

A DNA nano-harvester stays on its track inside tumor cells, measuring cancer aggressiveness by detecting a key microRNA biomarker.

Scientists on their quest to find the origin of life have stared into the primordial soup, trying to answer the ultimate chicken-and-egg question: Which came first, the genetic code or the proteins ...

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 ...

These random molecules were fed a collection of three-base-long RNAs, each linked to a chemical tag. The idea was that if a molecule is capable of ligating one of these short RNA fragments to itself, ...

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 ...

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications that make cells unique.

Scientists have uncovered new DNA-binding proteins from some of the most extreme environments on Earth and shown that they ...

The kinds of DNA-collecting techniques that fuel crime fiction and courtroom TV dramas could soon come with criminal ...