DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Simple reaction makes the building blocks of a nucleic acid "Cyanide to the RNA base cytosine" becomes a new clue for origin of life researchers. John Timmer – Oct 2, 2012 3:20 pm | 34 ...

Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven ...