DNA Discovery -- "A Clue to Emergence of Advanced Life Billions of Years Ago?"

Daily Galaxy (Nov. 20) -- A previously unappreciated interaction in the genome turns out to have possibly been one of the driving forces in the emergence of advanced life, billions of years ago.This new study contributes to the larger questions that the Institute for Universal Biology, a NASA Astrobiology Institute that Nigel Goldenfeld, Swanlund Chair of Physics at the University of Illinois and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, directs, seeks to answer — questions like: what had to happen in order for life to become advanced? Answering this question in greater detail could help scientists determine the possibility of life on other planets. Also: Phys.org (Nov. 19)