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 ...

when the structure of DNA and RNA was elucidated. The discovery of uracil and its pairing with adenine in RNA was a crucial milestone in understanding the genetic code and the central dogma of ...

Researchers at the RNA Institute at the University at Albany are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

DNA and RNA use the same five-carbon sugar, ribose, in their structure. The deoxy- means that on one side of the base pair, there's a place where another base pair can attach itself by way of a ...

University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

Assembling DNA nanostructures at more moderate temperatures opens up the possibility of using the structures in biomedical ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems.

For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

RNA sequencing has emerged as a powerful supplement to DNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnosis, but clinical translation of diagnostic RNA-seq has not been widely achieved. Researchers at ...