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Scientists reveal how Earth's early weather shaped the evolution of life
Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.
The minor spliceosome: Researchers reveal new structural insights into an essential RNA-protein complex
In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...
Chromatin fiber's genomic 'memory' governs the building blocks of life, study reveals
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...
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Life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu
By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...
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Yale scientists recode the genome for programmable synthetic proteins
Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...
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What We Didn't Get Right About Sunburns: It's Damage To Your RNA, Not DNA, That Causes Them
Many people follow the golden rules of avoiding direct sunlight between the hours of noon and 3 p.m., staying in […] ...
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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...
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Damaged RNA, not DNA, revealed as main cause of acute sunburn
Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage, but it turns out that this is not the full truth.
Why It's Likely That Other Technological Species Exist
We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
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China building world’s largest military command centre – 10 times bigger than Pentagon
China is building a new military command centre near ... which is known as the world’s largest office block. The images, obtained by the Financial Times, suggest major construction of the ...