A molecular illustration of the crowded interior and cell envelope of Escherichia coli. (David S. Goodsell, The Scripps ...

DNA dominates life on Earth, but modern chemistry and evolutionary theory suggest it may be only one possible solution for ...

THE precursor of life may have learned how to copy itself thanks to simple convection at the bottom of the ocean. Lab experiments reveal how DNA replication could have occurred in tiny pores around ...

IT’S not often that the audience at a scientific meeting gasps in amazement during a talk. But that’s what happened recently when researchers revealed that they had deleted huge chunks of the genome ...