A dawning field of research, artificial biology, is working toward creating a genuinely new organism. At Princeton, chemistry professor Michael Hecht and the researchers in his lab are designing and […]
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New Technique For Finding Life on Mars
Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets The study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, used […]
Posted inBiochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Press Release
Prebiotic Synthesis of RNA Nucleotides
RNA was probably the first informational molecule. Now chemists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have demonstrated that alternation of wet and dry conditions could have sufficed to drive the prebiotic […]
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Chemists Discover Plausible Recipe For Early Life On Earth
Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a fascinating new theory for how life on Earth may have begun. Their experiments, described today in the journal Nature Communications, […]
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Viruses Share Genes With Organisms Across The Tree of Life
A new study finds that viruses share some genes exclusively with cells that are not their hosts. The study, reported in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, adds to the evidence […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Press Release
Could Interstellar Ice Provide The Answer To Birth Of DNA?
Researchers at the University of York have shown that molecules brought to earth in meteorite strikes could potentially be converted into the building blocks of DNA. They found that organic […]
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New Computational Model of Chemical Building Blocks May Help Explain the Origins of Life
Scientists have yet to understand and explain how life’s informational molecules – proteins and DNA and RNA – arose from simpler chemicals when life on earth emerged some four billion […]
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Tricorder Tech: Real-Time DNA Sequencing in the Antarctic Dry Valleys Using the Oxford Nanopore Sequencer
The ability to sequence DNA outside of the laboratory setting has enabled novel research questions to be addressed in the field in diverse areas, ranging from environmental microbiology to viral […]
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New Bacteria Groups And Stunning Diversity Discovered Underground
One of the most detailed genomic studies of any ecosystem to date has revealed an underground world of stunning microbial diversity, and added dozens of new branches to the tree […]
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Analog DNA Circuit Does Math In A Test Tube
Often described as the blueprint of life, DNA contains the instructions for making every living thing from a human to a house fly. But in recent decades, some researchers have […]