Dangerous bacterium hosts genetic remnant of life's distant past

Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 14:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Within a dangerous stomach bacterium, Yale University researchers have discovered an ancient but functioning genetic remnant from a time before DNA existed, they report in the August 13 issue of the journal Science.

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