What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this ...

In addition, we examined monomers 30 and 31, which feature 1,2,5,6-tetramethylenecyclooctane structures, and found that the reactivity of 31 toward D–A polymerization was higher than that of 30 ...

The question will perhaps be settled by higher-resolution electron-microscopic images of labelled specimens or by the solution of crystal structures in different nucleotide-bound states.

LNAs, also referred to as inaccessible RNAs, are a family of nucleic acid analogs containing one or more LNA nucleotide monomer with a bicyclic furanose unit locked in an RNA-mimicking sugar ...

Thermoplastic polymer materials include both plastics and elastomers. Elastomers stand out as a crucial class of materials because of their wide-ranging applications. Polymers that can depolymerize ...

A fully π-conjugated helical system combining rigid [6]helicenes and a flexible o-OPE unit has been developed, yielding enantiopure emitters with up to three helical loops. The compounds display ...