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Dna structure
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is made up of two strands winding around each other to generate a "double helix". The backbone of each individual strand consists of sugar and phosphate groups. Each sugar is attached to a base: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), or thymine (T).
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SEP 16, 2016
Cancer
In school most of us are taught that DNA is arranged as a double helix. The discovery of this basic structure, after all
...
SEP 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Junk DNA refers to regions of the genome that did not at first appear to have any function or relevance. Research over t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that when proteins are made in the cell, a messenger RNA molecule made using DNA as a temp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 23, 2016
Immunology
Too much inflammation lies at the root of many diseases, one being atherosclerosis. In a new study from Michigan State U
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 21, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Image Credit: J E Theriot/Flickr There’s a new way to make tiny knotted and interlocked chemical structures that h
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
AUG 15, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
LA JOLLA, CA—August 15, 2015—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have taken a big step towar
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
AUG 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In new research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists applied a high throughput methodology to study th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 09, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) have been inspired by Twitter, a social network that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 04, 2016
Cancer
Olympians in Rio aren’t the only ones coveting gold – scientists at Niels Bohr Institute are using physics a
...
AUG 04, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
DNA and RNA have nearly identical building blocks yet DNA seems “chosen” to be the holder of genetic informa
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 31, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have elucidated the process that acti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 26, 2016
Videos
Humans have two different types of DNA: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. The one that usually gets the majority of publici
...
JUL 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In a study recently published in Science, researchers have described a cage they compare to the capsule structure that s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 19, 2016
Health & Medicine
Moms who eat high-fat, high-sugar diets may be putting future generations at risk for metabolic problems, even when thei
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUL 19, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers working at Florida State Unive
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Many human diseases have been linked to dysfunction in mitochondria, organelles in every cell that are responsible for g
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 16, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
DNA replication likes one direction. Not the boy band, but rather it prefers to replicate in a certain direction over th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2016
Videos
Our genes make us. They decide our height, the sound of our voice, and even how athletic we are. Yet, how is it that ide
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JUN 24, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Data published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the most convincing evidence seen yet tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 23, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The US government panel that evaluates gene therapy trials, the National Institute of Health’s Recombinant DNA Res
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
After a cold virus (rhinovirus) gets into our bodies it must get access to our cells in order to release its RNA and mul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 21, 2016
Immunology
What do alpacas have that we don’t? Single-domain antibody fragments. Other camelids have them as well, and there
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 13, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy are looking to apply DNA, the blueprints of our genetic material, to nanop
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 12, 2016
Neuroscience
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, currently affecting ~ 1 million people in
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich