RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome. Scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...
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When DNA and RNA Worlds Collide

If you thought that the RNA world hypothesis had comfortably eclipsed the DNA world hypothesis, think again. As far as molecular biologists at the MRC Laboratory are concerned, the two hypotheses are ...
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Building blocks of DNA and RNA could have appeared together before life began on Earth

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.
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First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA

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 kick-starting life on Earth, both chemicals were involved in the ...