Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing their RNA genome could let us ...
Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered a ribozyme that is shockingly small, yet capable of the fundamental steps of self-replication. They call it QT45 — ...
Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...
In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...
A British dinosaur convention is banning paleontologists named in the Jeffrey Epstein files from attending DinoCon – as the global scientific community becomes the latest to grapple with the convicted ...