Researchers make alternatives to DNA and RNADNA and RNA molecules are the basis for all life on Earth, but they don’t necessarily have to be the basis for all life everywhere, scientists have ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

DNA and RNA Copying made easy A universal isothermal DNA amplification method Date: March 12, 2019 Source: Wiley Summary: Whether revealing a perpetrator with DNA evidence, diagnosing a pathogen ...

DNA may have mixed with RNA to produce the first life on Earth Key building blocks of DNA and RNA can be made from the same raw materials. This finding suggests that instead of one or the other ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

Often it is easier to make a stretch of DNA or RNA with a synthesizer than it is to isolate that same stretch of DNA or RNA from a natural source. Synthetic oligos can also be created with slight ...

A new tool that maps out interactions between RNA and DNA molecules has been developed. MARGI works by providing a full account of RNA molecules that interact with DNA and their locations in bulk.

Scientists for the first time have found strong evidence that RNA and DNA could have arisen from the same set of precursor molecules even before life evolved on Earth about four billion years ago.

As climate change and human activity threaten freshwater ecosystems like lakes and rivers, it's more important than ever to ...

DNA and RNA, the two major modern forms of genetic code underpinning all of earthly biology, could have coexisted in strict pairings on our planet before life arose here, scientists in England ...

All life-forms use either DNA or RNA to store genetic information All of a sudden, DNA has no reason to feel special. For decades it seemed that only a handful of molecules could store genetic ...

The thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct over eight decades ago. However, recent ...