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?

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 ...

Professor Rashid Bashir and a research team at the Grainger College of Engineering, Urbana, Illinois have developed a novel ...

A team of researchers has developed a new gene-based technology that offers rapid, highly sensitive detection of multi-dru ...

When the Cas cleaves specially engineered nucleic acids that are added to the system, parts of the nucleic acids are free to bind and activate a second CRISPR/Cas, triggering a positive feedback ...

Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a project that's resulted in new ...