Credit: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/ What is DNA, and how does it work? You don't need a degree in genetics to understand. Here, we'll give an overview of DNA and answer questions ...

The sugar-phosphate backbone forms the structural framework of nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA. This backbone is composed of alternating sugar and phosphate groups, and defines directionality ...

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 is a well-understood molecule made up of pairs of complimentary nucleotide bases that have an affinity for each other. ... DNA could be backbone of next generation logic chips. Duke University.

This first observation of conduction along the backbone could help reconcile the seemingly contradictory results of the many base-stacking studies of conduction. Indeed, these latest results suggest ...

Supercoiling and looping can transmit mechanical stress along the DNA backbone that can promote the separation of the strands of the double helix at specific distant sites, exposing the DNA bases ...

DNA is made up of nucleic acid bases — labelled A, C, G and T — on a backbone made of phosphates and the sugar deoxyribose. The artificial polymers, dubbed XNAs, carry the normal genetic ...

Parts of DNA can form in space. For the first time, scientists have made 2-deoxyribose, the sugar that makes up the backbone of DNA, under cosmic conditions in the lab by blasting ice with radiation.

Those nucleosides are the sugary chunks that form DNA's backbone. They have never been synthesized with such ease, he says. "This is the first study to look into stimulating formamide with solar ...

The effects of supercoiling stress at one site of the loop can be transmitted along the DNA backbone to a distant site. For instance, if one site is sharply bent, a second site far away from the ...

Published in the journal Nature Communications, a study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine shows that supercoiling and looping can transmit mechanical stress along the DNA backbone. The ...