The origin of the first living molecules on our planet has long been debated. However, recent experiments are revealing new ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

(PHILADELPHIA) -- The popular view is that DNA and genes control everything of importance in biology. The genome rules all of life, it is thought. Increasingly, however, scientists are realizing that ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

University of Delaware’s Mona Batish is a molecular biologist. She studies circular RNAs formed as a result of so-called molecular mistakes that occur when a strand of RNA — the ribonucleic acid that ...