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 ...

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 ...

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

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...