Gene-Birth Midwives

A team of Georgia Institute of Technology scientists are reporting that molecules they term "unselfish" may have midwifed the birth of life's original (sometimes called "selfish") genes. The Georgia Tech scientists are investigating the possibility that intercalator molecules such as ethidium could have assisted life's non-living building blocks in forming complex organic chains and might have entered into the selection of DNA double helix base pairs. read more

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