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

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

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

Artificial Mammalian Origin Of Replication Date: December 1, 2005 Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summary: A collaboration of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of ...

Origin of life: The chicken-and-egg problem Date: March 2, 2021 Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Summary: New research shows that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules ...

Activation of initiation of DNA replication occurs at only a subset of replication origins that were previously assembled in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. This is achieved through a highly ...

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

A protein called PriC allows DNA replication to proceed in Escherichia coli when the complex that usually initiates this process is compromised.

Origins of Self-Replication Self-replication is a complicated process -- DNA, the basis for life on earth today, requires a coordinated cohort of enzymes and other molecules in order to duplicate ...

The number of replication origin sequences in the genome does not change during the lifespan of an organism, but the number of active origins does vary according to the developmental stage. In the ...