Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 88, No. 18 (Sep. 15, 1991), pp. 8237-8241 (5 pages) ...

In 1900, German physician Paul Ehrlich came up with the notion of a "magic bullet." The basic idea is to inject a patient with smart particles capable of finding, recognizing, and treating a disease.

DNA replication, the fundamental process of copying a DNA molecule, is described as semiconservative due to its unique ...

The building block of life is often heralded as the cornerstone of a new generation of electronic devices and computers, but the electronic properties of DNA remain highly controversial. 1 Back to ...

We now have billions of identical copies of a stretch of DNA 2,000 to 4,000 base pairs long. From these we need to create copies with special bases that our machines will be able to read. Instead of ...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, USA, report a modification wherein replacing the RNA strand of a heteroduplex oligonucleotide with DNA may ...