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 ...

Erwin Chargaff's groundbreaking research, which showed that DNA base pairs had a complementary relationship, laid the foundation for James Watson's and Francis Crick's DNA model. When word spread that ...

The basic repeating structural (and functional) unit of chromatin is the nucleosome, which contains eight histone proteins and about 146 base pairs of DNA (Van Holde, 1988; Wolffe, 1999).

Cytosine (C) will "pair" to guanine (G), and adenine (A) will "pair" to thymine (T). How the bases are arranged in the DNA is what determines the genetic code. When the enzyme has passed the end ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Assembling DNA nanostructures at more moderate temperatures opens up the possibility of using the structures in biomedical ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a vector that integrates the Cre enzyme gene with the specific DNA ...

University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

based on the idea that DNA can be used as a programmable structural material for the creation of artificial, rationally designed nanostructures. The highly specific nucleotide interaction following ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this ...