Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

Clues to the genetic code’s origin may be hidden in tiny protein fragments, revealing a synchronized and highly structured ...

A preprint study analyzing genetic material recovered from the Shroud of Turin suggests that some human mitochondrial DNA ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don’t undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

According to the RNA world hypothesis, life began when RNA molecules evolved the ability to make more copies of themselves. Now we have discovered an RNA molecule that is almost capable of this – it ...

A man has been arrested in connection to two sexual assault cases that happened decades ago in Montgomery County, Maryland. Montgomery County police said Monday they’ve arrested and charged Carl Rice ...

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Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

We thank all the members of the Symington lab for review of the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the NIH (R35 GM126997 to L.S.S. and T32 CA265828 to M.J.J.). Schematics shown in the ...

Eukaryotic Polα-primase contains DNA polymerase (Pol1) and RNA primase subunits that together synthesize a >20-nucleotide hybrid RNA–DNA primer. Bacteria and archaea only require a dozen or less RNA ...