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 ...

Scientists are now finding their own ways to put together nucleotides: to make a powerful new class of medicines based on nucleic acids. “This is true designer therapeutics,” says Brian Brown ...

The group was formed in 2003, having previously been a special interest group (The Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology Group) of both the RSC and the Biochemical Society. The purpose of the group is ...