A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they divide, a key process in keeping cells healthy.

CASPERSSON'S work 1 on the nucleic acid metabolism suggests that an appreciable turnover of the nucleic acid present in the nuclei of tissue cells may take place. This fact induced us to determine ...

A synthetic RNA transcript containing the entire sequence of one of the two natural mRNAs for Escherichia coli ribosomal protein S20 is a substrate for specific cleavage by an endonuclease which is or ...

Amino acids are the building blocks that form polypeptides and ultimately proteins. Consequently, they are fundamental components of our bodies and vital for physiological functions such as protein ...

This month's cover highlights the article AAV-mediated expression of proneural factors stimulates neurogenesis from adult Müller glia in vivo by Marina Pavlou, Thomas A. Reh and colleagues. Injuring ...

State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses and College of Pharmacy, Nankai University, Haihe ...

RNA-based therapeutics have rapidly emerged over the past decade, offering a new class of medicines that differ significantly from conventional drugs. These therapies can be programmed to target or ...

The trainee will be able to apply biomolecular NMR for the structure determination of nucleic acids and proteins. She/he will be able to determined the atomic detail structure of nucleic acids and ...

Saliva is a viable alternative source of nucleic acids. A new collection device offers stable and easy saliva collection for extracting both DNA and RNA from a single sample.

and to balance and make glucose as needed Regulation of blood levels of amino acids, which form the building blocks of proteins Processing of hemoglobin for use of its iron content (the liver stores ...

Locked nucleic acid (LNA) probes Probes that use modified nucleotides with a locked ribose ring, increasing the thermal stability of the probe-target hybrid While their specificity and thermal ...