Nucleic acids are fundamental biomacromolecules that not only store and transmit genetic information but also regulate myriad biochemical processes essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis. In ...

Some biologists have long hoped that small pieces of RNA that silence genes could help wipe out genetic diseases. But developing nucleic acid medications with good drug properties, such as selectivity ...

Scientists have been investigating properties of so-called xenonucleic acids or XNAs. They have demonstrated for the first time that six of these unnatural nucleic acid polymers are capable of sharing ...

Can chemists synthesize life? Not quite yet. But famed Biochemist Gerhard Schramm of the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research at Tubingen, Germany, is coming remarkably close. Last month he told a ...

Using advanced techniques in biophysical chemistry, a team led by Meredith Jackrel, an associate professor of chemistry, has ...

Bioorganic chemistry was born out of combining the two well-established scientific disciplines of chemistry and biochemistry. It is a rapidly growing scientific field that focuses on implementing ...

Adenine is an undistinguished-looking chemical with a molecule made of two ordinary carbon-nitrogen rings. But to biochemists, it is one of the keys of life. It takes part in the formation of a long ...