What if a complex material could reshape itself in response to a simple chemical signal? A team of physicists from the ...

Co-polymerization of glycol nucleic acid monomers with dicarboxylic acids in simulated early Earth drying environments readily gives rise to plausible prebiotic xeno nucleic acid co-polymers ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Article Published: 25 April 1953 Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid J. D. WATSON & F. H. C. CRICK Nature 171, 737–738 (1953) Cite this article ...

The structure and chemistry of nucleic acids is fundamental to their function, from the DNA double helix discovered by Watson and Crick to the intricate secondary and tertiary structures adopted by ...

One Among Millions: The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid-Like Molecules. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2019; 59 (10): 4266 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00632 ...

Previously, non-nucleic acid polymers had to be built stepwise, by adding one new unit to the polymer’s end each time. In this method, building a ten-unit polymer would take ten separate steps.

Researchers have developed a new method that depends on the analysis of reverse translocation through asymmetric pores, which minimizes the interference caused by interactions with the pore material ...

In the world of biomolecules such as proteins and the hereditary nucleic acids DNA and RNA, three-dimensional structure determines function. Analysis of the passage of such molecules through ...