Two separate laboratory breakthroughs have produced RNA molecules that can build copies of themselves or assemble functional structures without any help from proteins or DNA. These results offer the ...

Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the lab and in ancient rocks and space dust, RNA is yielding clues that are far ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered a ribozyme that is shockingly small, yet ...

A strand of RNA just 45 nucleotides long has been discovered to perform two key reactions required for self-replication. The ...

The evolution of life on Earth is a highly theorized thing. While there are many theories as to how life came to be on our little blue marble, some believe that it all came about because RNA ...

About three-fourths of our genome is transcribed into RNA, and these RNAs are involved in essentially every cellular process. Like us, RNA cannot do its job if it is not in the right place at the ...

Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical ...