The researchers designed short and simple dipeptides, mainly consisting of alternating amino acids with aromatic side groups, tyrosine (Y) and histidine (H) (Fig. 2). The former is hydrophobic residue ...

Phosphorus appears in biological molecules like nucleotides, phospholipids, and nucleic acids. But it’s not easy to trace its ... and these can be used to figure out its structure. Quantum chemistry ...

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine has summarized the results of its collaborative research with Professor Kanjiro Miyata's group from the Department of Materials Engineering/Bioengineering at the ...

Advances in the speed, scale, and affordability of nucleic acid synthesis over the last two decades have catalyzed a rapidly evolving landscape in ...

Nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) are polymers of nucleotides – each nucleotide consists of a pentose sugar, a phosphate group and one of the nitrogenous bases (purines and pyrimidines). Nucleic acids ...

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News & Views Published: April 2009 Back to the future of nucleic acid self-amplification Andrew D Ellington Nature Chemical Biology 5, 200–201 (2009) Cite this article ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

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Overview The research laboratory of Louis (Jim) J. Maher III, Ph.D., studies the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. Dr. Maher's research team works to understand how the locally stiff DNA molecule is bent and ...