A paper published in Nature Chemistry in May 2025 describes what its authors call the first demonstration of exponential RNA replication by a polymerase ribozyme under conditions that could plausibly have occurred on the early Earth. The work comes from Dr James Attwater and Dr Philipp Holliger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, with co-authors at UCL Chemistry.
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Chang and Jain develop a genetically encoded reporter to measure polyamines at single-cell resolution in C. elegans. By mapping polyamine control across tissues and development, they uncover organizing principles of in vivo polyamine regulation, including widespread reliance on transport and a central role for the intestine in coordinating systemic homeostasis.