Fat isn’t just a guilty pleasure — it’s cancer’s secret weapon. New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center is shedding ...

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?

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Nucleic acids are named for where they're found—inside the nuclei of cells—and for the acidic phosphate groups discovered in solution wherever DNA is present.

Inspired by nature, but looking for a simpler solution, Matt and colleagues relied on the self-assembly behavior of DNA. With only four nucleic acid building blocks, the design rules of DNA ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the ...

Abstract Nucleic acid replication is a central process at the origin of life. On early Earth, replication is challenged by the dilution of molecular building blocks and the difficulty of separating ...

Researchers have pinpointed a series of geological reaction conditions that could have sparked the origin of life on Earth. Researchers have discovered a plausible evolutionary setting in which ...

Researchers have identified a plausible geological setting in which nucleic acids, the fundamental building blocks of genetic material, could have replicated on their own, potentially giving rise to ...

Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven ...

Chemotherapy is one of the most-used cancer treatments. It uses chemicals that stops the growth of cancer cells in the body. Depending on the type of severity of the cancer, chemotherapy can stop the ...

Computationally more efficient methods such as PM6-D3H and HF-3c show promising but partly inconsistent results. It is demonstrated that large-scale DFT-D3 computations on complete nucleic acids ...

Nucleic Acid Building Blocks (Nucleotides and Nucleosides) are the building blocks of DNA and RNA, the genetic codes that determine exactly how these amino acids are used in our bodies.