Opinion: Textbook Biology's Origin of Life Deception!

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...

Major Paradigm Shift for our DNA

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...

Can RNA Turn Genes On?

"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...

Discovery may herald new RNA therapeutics

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...

Scientists discover new class of RNA

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,...

Masturbation Is Murder

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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Richard Dawkins and Nobel Prize Winners on NPR's 'Science Friday' (Webcast)

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...

DNA or RNA? Versatile Player Takes a Leading Role in Molecular Research

"Regulatory RNA is turning out to be a major player in some of a cell's most vital activities."

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