Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.