PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – In an unusual breakthrough at New York University's department of chemistry, researchers have been able to turn DNA into a molecular machine that can assemble polymer chains one ...

An international team of scientists from the University of Turku, Finland and PennState University, USA have solved a long-standing mystery of how living organisms distinguish RNA and DNA building ...

Three meteorites contain the molecular building blocks of DNA and its cousin RNA, scientists recently discovered. A subset of these building blocks had been detected in meteorites before, but the rest ...

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of DNA in meteorites that landed in North America and Australia, Reuters reports, suggesting that the basic ingredients for life may have originated in ...