When people eat, they ingest the nucleic acids that reside in all living things. The compounds in these acids could inhibit the growth of cancer cells, according to findings published in PLOS ONE ...

Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a new compound from the nuclei of white blood cells. This compound was neither a ...

A research team has developed an innovative technique that enables precise modification of specific proteins within complex ...

Nucleic acid therapeutics are based on nucleic acids or closely related chemical compounds. They include antisense oligonucleotides, aptamers and small interfering RNAs, and are typically ...

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 ...

Scientists say that in order for life to emerge, Earth needs organic compounds which include nitrogen and carbon. However, ...