Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the accuracy and speed at which often deadly pathogen infections can be ...

In a laboratory in Ulsan, South Korea, scientists have quietly pulled off what might become one of the most important ...

which offer higher binding capacity for nucleic acids and are better capable of withstanding repeated cycles of washing, stripping and reprobing. Although transfer and hybridization conditions may ...

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

A diagnostic technique that uses artificially engineered polymers — otherwise known as peptide nucleic acid (PNA) — as probes ...

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 ...

Non-Watson-Crick base pairs can play important roles in RNA secondary structure, protein-nucleic acid interactions, and genetic recoding events. The Role of Base Pairs in Genetics Base pairs play a ...