RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid polymer where the carbohydrate is ribose. RNA is generally single-stranded, as DNA is transcribed by RNA polymerases into mRNA (messenger RNA), which is ...

For all of last year, Illumina’s net loss grew 5% from $1.161 billion to $1.223 billion, on revenue that fell 3% from $4.505 ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

For liquid-liquid phase separation to occur in cells, the polymers that make up membraneless organelles—typically highly flexible proteins and nucleic acids—must exceed what is called their saturation ...

Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu discusses the nanoparticle delivery system behind the non-addictive pain medication Envelta and ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

A research group has developed SPACIER, an advanced polymer material design tool that integrates machine learning with ...

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time in the world using mice, the ability to overcome significant challenges in ...

NASA iCOOL (Center for the Integration of the Origins of Life) and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States Institute of ...

which are polymers whose degree of deprotonation is not fixed but can change depending on environmental conditions including pH and ionic concentration (Solveyra et al., 2020). Predictions of this ...