Yale researchers discover remnant of an ancient 'RNA world'
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat - and in doing so provide a glimpse of what the earliest forms of life on Earth may have looked like.
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