Deoxyribose is already a naturally occurring sugar in the body, and the gel developed by the research team is biodegradable ...

It all started with research on a sugar that naturally occurs in the body and helps form DNA: the 'deoxyribose' part of ...

Each nucleoside triphosphate is made up of three phosphates (represented here by yellow spheres), a deoxyribose sugar (beige rectangle) and one of four bases (differently colored cylinders).

Unlike DNA, RNA is usually single-stranded. Additionally, RNA contains ribose sugars rather than deoxyribose sugars, which makes RNA more unstable and more prone to degradation. RNA is synthesized ...

The basic units (monomers) of DNA are nucleotides. These nucleotides consist of a deoxyribose sugar, phosphate and base. The nucleotides are identical except for the base, which can be an adenine ...