Synthetic Life Report: Have "Instructions" and a "Scribe" Been Made? Almost. Many biologists think that the first life on Earth had instructions encoded not in DNA but in a primitive form of RNA.

This synthetic genome tech means that life-forms can be customized depending on what aspects need to be enhanced. As part of the Sc2.0 Project, for example, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was ...

The discussions grapple with questions of control, harmony, and emergent relationships between synthetic and natural forms of life, offering listeners a thought-provoking journey into the complexities ...

RNA has long been thought to be a key molecule in the primordial soup that was Earth a few billion years ago, because it can not only store genetic information but also act as an enzyme—two key ...