Hidden rules of genetics for how life on Earth began
Monday, July 30, 2018 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
All living things use the genetic code to "translate" DNA-based genetic information into proteins, which are the main working molecules in cells. Precisely how the complex process of translation arose in the earliest stages of life on Earth more than four billion years ago has long been mysterious, but two theoretical biologists have now made a significant advance in resolving this mystery.