Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

This third base pair, an artificial addition to nature’s A-T and C-G base pairs, was developed by chemists at the Scripps Research Institute. It has now found what may be its first practical use.

A base pair is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA.It consists of two complementary nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds. The base pairing rules state ...

The first semi-synthetic organism, an E. coli bacteria expressing proteins made from “unnatural base pairs.” (Credit: William B. Kiosses) Romesberg provides a demonstration of this by adding in two ...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) claim to have created the first stable semisynthetic organism with extra bases added to its genetic code. The single-celled organism is also ...

The Base Pair initiative, which has been around for 27 years, started with a simple question: "How can the sole academic medical center for this state help advance science education in the public ...

Home Insights Discrimination of Single Base Pair Mismatch. Discrimination of Single Base Pair Mismatch. By Jayne Bates . November 14, 2014. November 15, 2014 (Vol. 34, No. 20) ...

Two nucleotides together form a base pair; the sugars and phosphates form a "backbone," along which the base pairs are strung. Fully assembled, the sequence of base pairs is a compound molecule ...

Researchers investigating expanding the DNA “alphabet”—developing artificial bases that can potentially encode more information than the standard A, T, C, and G—have found that DNA polymerase is more ...

When a modified brick base pairs with its designated spots on the template, it acts as a signal for an enzyme to modify that spot on the template DNA strand as well, “printing” the epigenetic ...