Asteroid Ryugu Contains All 5 DNA and RNA Building Blocks, Study Shows
Early Earth was a brutally hot, volcanically active, radiation-bathed wasteland. Somehow amid this hostility, the necessary ingredients for…
Do Extreme Environments Shape Microbial Genomes?
Graphical abstract — University of Waterloo Evolutionary biologists have long known that DNA, the molecule that carries the…
Registration Is Now Open For Origins 2026
Origins 2026 is an international conference jointly organized by the International Society for the Study of the Origins…
With Evo 2, AI Can Model And Design The Genetic Code For All Domains Of Life
Mechanistic interpretability of Evo 2 reveals DNA, RNA, protein and organism-level features — Nature The DNA foundation model…
Did Life Begin as Slime? Scientists Propose Novel ‘Gel-First’ Origin of Life Theory
Long before the first cell divided, before DNA carried genetic instructions, and before membranes enclosed the chemistry of…