Thursday, May 14, 2009

Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life

Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: May 13, 2009

An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago.

EXPLAIN THE THEORY OF ENDOSYMBIOSIS

Cooking Up Millions of Viruses for a New Vaccine

Cooking Up Millions of Viruses for a New Vaccine
By DENISE GRADY
Published: May 5, 2009

VALHALLA, N.Y. — As soon as Doris Bucher learned that a new strain of swine flu had turned up in the United States, she e-mailed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offering to send materials that might be useful in making a vaccine.