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All About Nucleic Acid Foods and Functions

Discover the importance of nucleic acids for your health. Learn what foods are good sources of nucleic acids and how to ...

The enzyme that doesn't act like one: NUDT5 controls DNA building block production through structure, not catalysis

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.
The Brown Daily Herald

With new donation and NIH grant, Brown aims to capitalize on potential of RNA research

Following a gift from Brown trustee Giammaria Giuliani P’28 and Sabrina Giuliani P’28, Brown’s RNA center will be named the ...
Nanowerk

Pyrimidine: Essential Building Block of DNA and RNA

This diagram depicts the chemical structure of pyrimidine, a six-membered aromatic ring with two nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 (highlighted in blue). The remaining positions are occupied by ...
Georgia Tech News Center

RNA’s Surprising Role in DNA Repair

RNA’s Surprising Role in DNA Repair New insights could lead to improved treatments for cancer and other diseases. Francesca Storici and her research team discovered a surprising role for RNA in DNA ...

NAD⁺ restores memory in Alzheimer's disease models by correcting RNA errors

Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, affects nearly 40 million individuals globally, resulting in a ...
Science Daily

A revolutionary DNA search engine is speeding up genetic discovery

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...
GEN

Long-Lived RNA in Nerve Cells Can Last a Lifetime

Contrary to historic understanding of RNA’s longevity in cells, some RNAs can persist in cells throughout the life of an organism. Lead authors, Martin Hetzer, PhD, president of the Institute of ...