Dr. Chad Mirkin, Director of International Institute for Nanotechnology talks to News-Medical Life Science about the use of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) in vaccinations and treatments for disease, ...

An international research team has determined the first high-resolution structures of the herpes simplex virus origin-binding ...

Guanine quadruplexes (G-quadruplexes or G4s) are unusual nucleic acid structures with distinct biological and chemical functions. They have occupied significant attention in the nucleic acid world ...

As a molecular biologist, I always enjoy reading articles concerning DNA and RNA. Your excellent article in the April 3, 2023, issue of C&EN (page 18) titled “The Promise of Peptide Nucleic Acids” ...

Deciphering how the GR forms oligomers—through the binding of several subunits—opens a crucial avenue for developing more ...

Drugs to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases - such as asthma, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis or Chrousos syndrome - ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Since the discovery of the DNA double helix in 1953, researchers dreamed of leveraging nucleic acids for revolutionary biomedical applications benefiting human health. Early ...

The open-source AI model improves transparency in predicting how proteins interact with other molecules, which could speed up drug discovery.

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...