DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

A nucleic acid is a long molecule made up of smaller molecules called nucleotides. Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a ...

One Among Millions: The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid-Like Molecules. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2019; 59 (10): 4266 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00632 ...

Kieser, E. and Budowle, B. (2020) Chapter 13 - Select methods for the microbial forensic nucleic acid analysis of trace and uncultivable specimens. Microbial Forensics (Third Edition) (pp.195-205).

Nucleic acids store information in an “alphabet” of four bases, known as nucleotides. Peptides and proteins use an entirely different alphabet, made up of 20 different amino acids.

A novel method for isothermal amplification of nucleic acids has been developed by researchers from Xuchang University (Xuchang, China). The method could be used for detection of pathogens. A novel ...

There are four basic building blocks in biology: lipids (fats), amino acids (proteins), nucleic acids (such as DNA) and carbohydrates. The team — consisting of Zeng-Fei Pei, Natalia Vior, Lingyang Zhu ...