At the heart of molecular biology is the study of genetic material – DNA and RNA – which serve as the fundamental blueprints for life. These nucleic acids are not only essential for understanding how ...

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 ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Georgia Tech's Francesca Storici, has discovered a previously unknown role ...

Found in nucleic acids like DNA and RNA, they are the very foundations of life as we know it ... These results represent a significant advance in understanding the origin of chemical compounds that ...

Kossel isolated cytosine from calf thymus tissues and found that it was a component of nucleic acids. This discovery, along with the identification of other nitrogenous bases, laid the foundation for ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA ...