Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Nucleic acids such as DNA are becoming increasingly popular as versatile building blocks in nanobiotechnology as a result of their superb, predictable self-assembling properties and the high rigidity ...

Metal-mediated base pairing in nucleic acids represents a transformative approach wherein traditional Watson–Crick hydrogen bonds are replaced or supplemented by coordinate bonds with metal ions. This ...

The research focus of the Müller group is the bioinorganic chemistry of nucleic acids with a particular emphasis on the generation, characterization as well as application of nucleic acids including ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 74, No. 7 (Jul., 1977), pp. 2624-2628 (5 pages) The complex formed between the mutagen proflavine and the dC-dC-dG ...

Three free radicals have been detected in single crystals of a molecular complex between 1-methylcytosine (1MeC) and 5-fluorouracil (5FU) X-irradiated and observed by ESR at 77 K. One of these ...

For several decades now there have been steady advances in models and algorithms for nucleic acid structure prediction. These advances have been valuable to biologists who wish to understand the ...

Billions of years ago, when the Earth was in its infancy and biology hadn't even gotten going, the precursors to the first living organisms were probably self-replicating strands of RNA. Scientists ...

The meeting will focus on pre- and post- transcriptional gene silencing using oligodeoxynucleotides, small interfering RNA, microRNA and other nucleic acid-based molecules to develop effective drugs.

Nucleotides are the building blocks of the two nucleic acids, ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). As such, they are also the building blocks of you and every other lifeform on ...

When planet Earth was still in its infancy, the precursor of life may have self-replicating strands of RNA. Indeed, scientists presume that this "RNA world" laid the foundation for everything we see ...