Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a new compound from the nuclei of white blood cells. This compound was neither a ...

Gene therapy involves the introduction of functional genes into cells to replace or correct defective genes. Nucleic acids, such as viral vectors or synthetic nucleic acid molecules, are used to ...

Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

A researcher in Purdue University’s College of Science is developing a patent-pending platform technology that mimics the dual-layer structure of viruses to deliver nucleic acid (NA)-based therapies ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have developed a powerful new technique to better understand how ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body’s gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

The preclinical study, published April 17 in Nucleic Acids Research, brings us closer to understanding the mechanisms behind aging and cancer. Before cells divide, they replicate the double ...

A scientific revolution is underway as researchers push to bring atomic-level precision, once reserved for small molecule ...