Tag: DNA
Catch a virus by the tail
Some RNA viruses such as Segmented negative-sense (SNS) RNA viruses initiate infection by delivering into cells a suite of genomic RNA segments, each sheathed...
Study reveals key step in cell protein production from genes
DNA is the information molecule. It stores instructions for making other large molecules, called proteins. These instructions are stored inside each of your cells,...
Scientists created world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA
Scientists at Cambridge University have created the world’s first living organism that has a fully synthetic and radically altered DNA code.
They have replaced the...
New system that store data in organic molecules for millennia
Although the information is ubiquitous, and its technology arguably among the highest that humankind has produced, its very ubiquity has posed new types of...
Scientists have created the largest simulation of an entire gene of DNA
The growing interest in the complexity of biological interactions is continuously driving the need to increase system size in biophysical simulations, requiring not only...
Directed evolution method can engineer synthetic nanoparticles
Mimicking natural evolution, directed evolution guides the synthesis of proteins with improved or new functions. The technique is powerful enough that it can engineer...
Scientists have created a whole new kind of DNA that could support life
There are four types of nitrogenous bases in DNA. Adenine (A) and guanine (G) are double-ringed purines, and cytosine (C) and thymine (T) are...
New study may help address drug resistant pneumococcal diseases
Indian researchers have identified three drug target sites in the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae, paving the way for developing newer drugs to treat Pneumococcal...
Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the...
