"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a recent Nature Communications publication. In the study, Chappell describes ...

From the Bedalov Lab, Translational Science and Therapeutics and Human Biology Divisions When I asked Foss and Bedalov whether the known replication origins in yeast shared any sequence-level features ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth—a key process in the origin of life. Scientists ...