A new study led by Francesca Storici, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and faculty member of the Parker H.

It's one of the origins-of-life chicken-or-egg problems: How could RNA have helped give rise to the first cells before there were cells to contain it?

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

Gene expression is linked to RNA transcription, which cannot happen without RNA polymerase. However, this is where the similarities between prokaryote and eukaryote expression end. Central to the ...

It's one of the origins of life's chicken-or-the-egg problems: How could RNA have helped give rise to the first cells before there ...