What would happen to the genetic code, were it not to put together its twenty amino acids in the tidy, one-after-another ...

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be recalling some other arrangement of amino-acids. A recent examination of protein ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

While humans have an esthetic liking for symmetry in everything, nature prefers asymmetric, single-handed forms when it comes to amino acids—the building blocks of proteins, and, by extension, all ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic greatly accelerated the development of messenger RNA technology by demonstrating the safety, effectiveness and scalability of mRNA-based vaccines 1. Writing in Nature, Zhang et ...