RECENTLY Donovan and Woodhouse1 advanced a speculation on the nature of the chemical structure which is the essence of the malignant cell. Their idea is the formulation of a molecule in the ...

Sugar: In DNA, the sugar is deoxyribose, while in RNA, it is ribose.The sugar forms the backbone of the nucleic acid strand. Phosphate Group: The phosphate group is attached to the sugar and helps ...

A new gene therapy delivery device could let hospital pharmacies make personalized nanomedicines to order. This democratized ...

Chinese scientists have developed a novel nanotherapy known as biomimetic extracellular vesicle spherical nucleic acids ...

Our research focuses on all aspects of nucleic acid structure, chemistry and function employing state of the art technologies and approaches. Our goal is to generate a better understanding of how ...

Learning with TOI News: Nucleic acids are essential for the functioning and development of living organisms. DNA carries genetic information that determines traits such as ey ...

A researcher is developing a patent-pending platform technology called LENN that mimics the dual-layer structure of viruses to deliver nucleic acid (NA)-based therapies to targeted cancer cells.

The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine has summarized the results of its collaborative research with Professor Kanjiro ...

Moreover, the nucleic acid portion of the virus enables it to reproduce when introduced into a living cell. William H. Stein (1911-1980) and Stanford Moore (1913-1982), who came to Rockefeller as ...

Peptide nucleic acids progress for gene editing and ... there is no need for sneaking an accompanying enzyme like Cas9 into the cell; the structure that the PNAs form recruits the cell’s own ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A researcher in Purdue University’s College of Science is developing a patent-pending platform technology that mimics the dual-layer structure of viruses to deliver nucleic acid ...