The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in
bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate …

Centuries of scientific inquiry have brought us progressively closer to answering the big
question: how did organisms such as ourselves come to exist? The most stunning advance …

The genomes of large multicellular eukaryotes are mostly comprised of non-protein coding
DNA. Although there has been much agreement that a small fraction of these genomes has …

New roles for RNAs in biology continue to emerge, and a glance at the history of RNAs may
prepare molecular biologists for future discoveries about these powerful molecules. A …

In this masterful account, a historian of science surveys the molecular biology revolution, its
origin and continuing impact. Since the 1930s, a molecular vision has been transforming …

All of the life that is known, all organisms that exist on Earth today or are known to have
existed on Earth in the past, are of the same life form: a life form based on DNA and protein …

RNA plays a central, and until recently, somewhat underestimated role in the genetics
underlying all forms of life on earth. This versatile molecule not only plays a crucial part in …

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In molecular biology, one of the founding dogmas states that genetic information, stored in
the form of DNA molecules in the majority of living organisms, is translated into proteins via …

Technological advances over the past decade have unraveled the remarkable complexity of
RNA. The identification of small peptides encoded by long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as …