Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become an essential tool for studying the behavior and properties of nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA. These simulations allow researchers to visualize ...

Gas phase spectroscopy is a powerful technique used to study the structures and interactions of nucleic acid complexes, such as DNA and RNA. This method allows researchers to investigate the ...

In this review of RNA therapies, we paint an overview of what’s going on in a field that is addressing a number of diseases.

Throughout all domains of life, nucleic acids and proteins perform a variety of vital functions, where the sequence-defined structures of these biopolymers either operate on their own or efficiently ...

Researchers have now uncovered the 3D structure of the RNA enzyme SAMURI. Their study provides insights into the development of ribozymes and the evolution of catalytically active RNA. Researchers ...

Center for Biomedical-photonics and Molecular Imaging, Advanced Diagnostic-Therapy Technology and Equipment Key Laboratory of Higher Education Institutions in Shaanxi Province, School of Life Science ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

Researchers at the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Center for Molecular Biosciences (CMBI), led by Kathrin Breuker, ...

After entering host cells, it seizes control of the translation process, which converts messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA ... discovery was an intricate RNA structure near the critical "frameshift ...

WANG Chuan from Fudan University revealed how a bacterial pathogen coordinates N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) metabolism at the post-transcriptional level via a novel small noncoding RNA to ...

Enzymes made of RNA are called “ribozymes”. A group of researchers led by Professor Claudia Höbartner at the University of Würburg (JMU) has now uncovered the three-dimensional structure of ...