Nucleotides are the building blocks of the two nucleic acids, ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). As such, they are also the building blocks of you and every other lifeform on ...

Discover how an emerging technology called tRNA therapy could become the next big thing in genetic disease treatment.

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

The new approach builds directly on the genetic medicine revolution that began at Penn: the development of safe messenger RNA ... nucleotides (the building blocks of mRNA and DNA).

The group focused on nucleotides - the building blocks of DNA and RNA - which are a class of nutrients that hasn't been well studied for C. diff. The researchers found that C. diff must acquire a ...

Next-generation DNA sequencing has started a revolution in genomics and created the opportunity for large-scale sequencing projects, such as the recently announced 1,000 Genomes Project—an ...

Disturbing news appears nearly daily from the federal government. Among the science-related issues, the most disturbing was ...

For transcription, a solution containing 2 μM of the double-stranded DNA, 6.25 mM rNTP, 80 mM HEPES-KOH pH 7.5, 24 mM MgCl 2, 2 mM spermidine, 40 mM DTT, 20 μg/mL pyrophosphatase (Roche) and a ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these ...