Santa Cruz, CA — Which came first, nucleic acids or proteins? This question is molecular biology’s version of the “chicken-or-the-egg” riddle. Genes made of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) contain the ...
The newly constructed structure in the National Botanical Gardens in Ireland, meant to symbolize the flow of information from DNA to RNA and proteins, contains a representation of the DNA double helix ...
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a type of gene regulation never before observed in mammals–a “ribozyme” that controls the activity of an important family of ...