The determination in 1953 of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), with its two entwined helices and paired organic bases, was a tour de force in X-ray crystallography. But more ...

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?

Nucleic acid is essential for all forms of life, and it is found in all cells. ... The 5-carbon sugar (known as a pentose) includes ribose and deoxyribose, which are present in nucleic acid.

DNA (Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid) is the coding molecule that allows human cells to replicate and function. Human DNA is organised into compact structures called chromosomes of which humans have 23 pairs ...

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 ...

Object Details Author Nature Publishing Group Notes January 23, 2003 issue of Nature. "Reprinted from Nature, vol. 421, no. 6921." Contents The eternal molecule / Carina Dennis & Philip Campbell -- A ...

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 ...

"We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest." With this famous understatement ...

Along with phosphate groups, deoxyribose makes up the backbone of DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid). When the double helix unwinds during replication, deoxyribose provides the structure for our ...

Less than a year before Watson and Crick’s paper, "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid," was published in Nature, 60 years ago today, Rosalind Franklin sent around a hand-lettered obituary: ...