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A New Form Of Life

Summary by metafilter.com
A group of biologists based at Stanford has discovered a new form of life, unrelated to any known animal, plant, bacteria, archea or virus. Known as obelisks, they consists of tiny circular fragments of RNA, without a protein coating (like viruses have). These were discovered by computer-aided searching through tens of thousands of RNA sequences and according to the authors "they define the working limits of biological information transfer". S…
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