Nucleic acids are complex biological molecules that store and transmit genetic information in all living organisms. They are essential for the survival and reproduction of life on Earth. The two main ...

SINCE the time when they were first proposed 1, certain regularities characteristic of deoxypentose nucleic acids in general, regardless of source and composition, have become well established 2. The ...

Albrecht Kossel's Nobel Prize-winning research unveiled the chemical basis of heredity, shaping modern genetics and molecular ...

Dr. Chad Mirkin, Director of International Institute for Nanotechnology talks to News-Medical Life Science about the use of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) in vaccinations and treatments for disease, ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

DNA, the blueprint of life, is best known for its fundamental role as genetic material—storing and transmitting biological information through the precise sequence of its bases. For decades, this ...

RECENTLY Donovan and Woodhouse 1 advanced a speculation on the nature of the chemical structure which is the essence of the malignant cell. Their idea is the formulation of a molecule in the ...

The research team of Weihong Tan, Xiaohong Fang, and Tao Bing from the Hangzhou Institute of Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...