Two nucleotides together form a base pair ... phosphate groups discovered in solution wherever DNA is present. DNA and RNA use the same five-carbon sugar, ribose, in their structure.

LncRNAs and circRNAs are key regulators of gene expression, influencing disease mechanisms and offering potential as ...

Swapna Sasidharan is not the kind of mom who has endless energy for trips or someone who spends her day at ease after a long, ...

Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago professor Jack Szostak delivered two lectures on the origin of life to an audience of professors, graduate, and undergraduate students the Monday and Tuesday ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

Scientists have made a major discovery about ADAR1—a protein that controls RNA-induced immune responses—paving ...

But a team of researchers led by Kishore Guda, associate professor at the Digestive Health Research Institute at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, found a special class of ribonucleic acid ...

Site-specific endonucleases that exclusively cut single-stranded DNA have hitherto never been described and constitute a barrier to the development of ssDNA-based technologies. Here the authors ...

The expansion of clones with distinct SERPINA1 somatic mutants in the livers of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT) patients is consistent with convergent evolution. These variants interfere ...