Although zinc fingers are best known to interact with DNA, they can, as in the case of the TFIIIA protein, also interact with RNA. A recent crystal structure reveals that zinc fingers can take ...

As medical research progresses, traditional treatment protocols are being rapidly exhausted. New approaches to treat diseases that do not respond to conventional drugs are the need of the hour. In ...

This diagram depicts the chemical structure of pyrimidine, a six-membered aromatic ring with two nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 (highlighted in blue). The remaining positions are occupied by ...

A research team led by professor Olivia Merkel, Chair of Drug Delivery at LMU and co-spokesperson of the Cluster for Nucleic ...

Researchers have developed a drug delivery platform wherein heteroduplex oligonucleotide drugs conjugated with cholesterol are able to cross the blood-brain barrier and achieve therapeutic ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Maravai LifeSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVI), a global provider of life science reagents and services to researchers and biotech innovators, announced that it has signed an ...

A research team has found that compounds in the nucleic acids derived from food can inhibit the growth of certain cancer cells. When people eat, they ingest the nucleic acids that reside in all living ...

Thanks to the novel Thermo Scientific™ Acclaro™ Sample Intelligence technology, the NanoDrop One delivers comprehensive sample quality information via the identification of common contaminants and the ...

German CDMO BioSpring is building a new production facility that it hopes will become one of the world's biggest manufacturing sites for DNA- and RNA-based active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). The ...

Nucleic acids are chains of nucleotides that are a vital part of all living beings. The two most common types of nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), which provide ...