If it looks like an engineered system, functions like an engineered system, and is mapped like an engineered system, perhaps it is time to stop pretending it’s a happy accident.
Here we see yet another case of researchers viewing reality through evolutionary glasses, leading to bold interpolations well beyond the actual evidence.
DNA forms coils when passing through nanopores, rather than forming messy knots: a finding that could influence future advances in genomics and biosensing.
The discovery of novel circular RNAs in microbial communities is worthy of further investigation, but the ontological leap from genetic novelty to a new domain of life is wholly unjustified by the current evidence.