Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on ...

Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of life.

The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species ...

One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Scientists have long wondered how life first began on Earth. While we don’t have all the answers, one thing is clear: every ...

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...