In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones. By Carl Zimmer A flurry of new studies ...
February 12 is Darwin Day, marking the birth anniversary of Charles Darwin. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection changed biology forever. His ideas still guide research in genetics, ...
Although the participation of spliceosomes is almost always required for intron removal, a few types of genes have self-splicing RNA introns. The RNA transcript of such a gene can carry out the entire ...