Covalent bonding is a widely understood phenomenon that joins the atoms of a molecule by a shared electron pair. But in ...

Hydrogels are polymeric materials with three-dimensional network structures containing large amounts of water. They serve as sustained-release drug delivery systems as they can encapsulate various ...

Direct chemical synthesis has been adapted to make oligonucleotides of remarkable length, including an 800 nucleotide green ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

In a recent study published in the journal Intelligent Computing, researchers from Peking University showed how nuclear electric resonance can be used to manipulate DNA artificially for computational ...

Research Institute for Light-induced Acceleration System (RILACS), Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-2 Gakuencho, Nakaku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8570, Japan Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, ...

Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been developed. A better ...

Researchers have profiled the molecular structure and features of a key part of the deadly Nipah virus. Experiments in cells showe how changes in the viral polymerase -- a protein involved in ...

The international team describes their results and the underlying molecular mechanism in Cell Metabolism. Ergothioneine is a natural compound found in certain fungi such as oyster or shiitake ...

biopolymers made of nucleotide subunits that carry the code of life. ”This is CRISPR for editing polymers,” said ORNL’s Jeffrey Foster, who led a study that was published in Journal of the American ...

The study generated a set of structures that ... pairing of the carbonless nucleotide analogues and a carbonless DNA dimer proved to be geometrically comparable to conventional DNA molecules, with ...