What is DNA, and how does it work? You don't need a degree in genetics to understand. Here, we'll give an overview of DNA and ...

The metabolically important purines, adenine and guanine, serve as building blocks for nucleic acids and as components of cofactors for a wide variety of biochemical reactions. Adenine and guanine ...

The DNA glycosylase MutY, which is a member of the Helix-hairpin-Helix (HhH) DNA glycosylase superfamily, excises adenine from mispairs with 8-oxoguanine and guanine. High-resolution crystal ...

Adenine was first discovered in 1885 by the German physiologist Albrecht Kossel. He isolated adenine from the pancreas of oxen and named it "adenine" derived from the Greek word "aden," meaning gland.

With the arrival of a new class of single-nucleotide editors, researchers can target the most common type of pathogenic SNP in humans. Now, researchers at Harvard University have designed a new class ...

But when U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers Christina Bergonzo and Alexander Grishaev put ...

The thymine-adenine (T-A) base pair is held together by fewer hydrogen bonds compared to the guanine-cytosine (G-C) base pair, which has three hydrogen bonds. The complementary base pairing in DNA ...

Other combinations of the atoms form the four bases: thymine (T), adenine (A), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). These bases are the rungs of the DNA ladder. (It takes two bases to form a rung -- one ...

The work used recently developed techniques to identify not only adenine and guanine—which had previously been identified in samples from some of the same meteorites—but also cytosine, uracil, and ...

DNA contains four nucleotides: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine (aka A, G, C and T), which arrange into the famed double helix. The patterns they form store the code for making living organisms ...