Millions of high school and college biology textbooks imply that Stanley Miller, in the 1950's, showed that life could arise by chance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Miller, in his famous experiment in...
A fundamental shift in the way biologists view and understand how our genetic code works is underway. This comes a few decades after molecular biologists first produced a coherent model for how genes are...
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"This week, more than 700 scientists have flocked to the ski resort of Keystone, Colorado, for five days. But it's not the snow that's brought them together. Rather, it's something they find much more exciting: RNA--a tiny cousin of DNA that may be the key to developing...
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Very recently in the Journal Nature...British scientists have taken an
important step toward preventing tumor growth by finding a way of
switching off a gene involved in cell division.
The Oxford University researchers say the mechanism involves a form
of ribonucleic acid, or...
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The last few years have been very good to ribonucleic acid (RNA).
Decades after DNA took biology by storm, RNA was considered little more
than a link in a chain--no doubt a necessary link, but one that, by
itself,...
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Scientists are discovering that as well as carrying the DNA that spells out the male's contribution to a new life, sperm carries RNA and proteins which have a direct influence on fertilisation and embryo development.
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Online audio webcast archive of 'Science Friday' for the 6th October 2006: Hour One: Winners of the 2006 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were announced this week. Join Joe Palca in...
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