The backbone of nucleic acids contains phosphate groups that carry a negative charge in solution. The repulsion caused by these negative charges on all three backbones weakens the binding of the ...

When people eat, they ingest the nucleic acids that reside in all living things. The compounds in these acids could inhibit ...

A research team describes how they engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid. The ability to synthesize artificial chains of TNA ...