WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Microscopic scaffolding to house the tiny components of nanotech devices could be built from RNA, the same substance that shuttles messages around a cell’s nucleus, reports a ...

An international research team has succeeded in developing a new version of RNA building blocks with higher chemical reactivity and photosensitivity. This can significantly reduce the production time ...

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

We don’t know exactly how life arose on Earth. For one thing it was a long time ago: Roughly 3.8 billion years in the past, give or take, and records of anything that happened from that period in ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has succeeded in developing a new version of RNA building blocks with higher chemical reactivity and photosensitivity. This can ...

Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano group, that is, a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond to a nitrogen atom, are typically toxic. But paradoxically, they are also a key ...

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

University of Michigan pediatric neurologist Vivian Cheung is launching an international project to identify the full range of RNA building blocks inside human cells. The effort, supported by a new $2 ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...