Researchers have uncovered a way to manipulate DNA at the atomic level using electric field gradients to control nitrogen nuclear spins. Their findings suggest that DNA could be used as both a storage ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

In a recent study published in the journal Intelligent Computing, researchers from Peking University showed how nuclear electric resonance can be used to manipulate DNA artificially for computational ...

People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time.

Red arrows indicate the nuclear spin axes at the positions of the N3 nitrogen atoms on the guanine (G) bases. Due to the helical structure of DNA, there is an angular deviation in the orientation of ...

Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...

Son of sevenless homolog 1 (SOS1) is an essential guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) in KRAS-driven tumors, and it also functions as a downstream node protein of BCR-ABL, suggesting its critical ...

A computational study has replaced the carbon in cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine and deoxyribose with nitrogen and boron to understand what carbonless DNA might be like. The study generated a set ...

Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Institute for Nucleic Acids, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF, U.K. Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, ...