(Nanowerk News) A human cell harbors roughly 2 meters of DNA, encompassing the essential genetic information of an individual. If one were to unwind and stretch out all the DNA contained within a ...
Natural DNA is often double-stranded. Yet, there exists another, lesser-known class of interactions between DNA. These so-called normal or reverse Hoogsteen interactions allow a third strand to join ...
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-canonical structures formed by guanine-rich nucleic acids, increasingly implicated in transcriptional control, replication dynamics and genome stability at telomeres and ...
In the middle of the 20th century, accumulating data suggested that DNA carries life’s genetic information. Biochemists around the world raced to determine its structure. The competition led to some ...