A nucleic acid is a long molecule made up of smaller molecules called nucleotides. Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a ...

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?

Fully assembled, the sequence of base pairs is a compound molecule called a nucleic acid. Living organisms are constantly building new cells or repairing old ones. To do this they have to make ...

Most people at the time thought the gene would be protein, not nucleic acid, but by the late 1940s, DNA was largely accepted as the genetic molecule. Scientists still needed to figure out this ...

and it seemed worthwhile to investigate the nature of such molecular interactions between nucleic acid components and amino-acids. This article deals with a study of complexes of tryptophan and ...

Single-molecule imaging has been widely applied to study the interactions between nucleic acids and proteins. Techniques like single-molecule FRET (Förster resonance energy transfer) have enabled the ...

At this year’s ABRF Annual Meeting (23–26 March; NV, USA), biotech companies had the opportunity to showcase their technology ...

Aptamers can be labeled with fluorescent dyes or radionuclides for molecular imaging applications. They can be used to visualize specific targets in vitro or in vivo, aiding in the diagnosis and ...

Hajun Kim, Taejoon Kwon, and Joo Hun Kang—from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a novel ...