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?

Scientists at the University of Toronto studying the hermaphroditic worm Caenorhabditis elegans found that amyloid-like ...

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins. In reality, there is much more to the RNA story. However ...

New research pioneered by The University of Western Australia is shedding light on the intricate dance between proteins, DNA ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Cytosine can also be isolated from DNA or RNA through enzymatic digestion and chromatographic ... These cytosine analogs exploit the differences in the replication machinery of cancer cells or viruses ...

What's the difference between mRNA and pre-mRNA? It's all about splicing of introns. See how one RNA sequence can exist in nearly 40,000 different forms. Next, the snRNPs U2 and U4/U6 appear to ...