Cryo-electron microscopy reveals hidden mechanics of DNA replication, sheds new light on cancer target
MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a ...
Engineered E. coli could be used to produce biodegradable plastics
E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...
RNA origami technique folds nanotubes to create artificial cytoskeletons for synthetic cells
With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...
New capabilities in DNA nanostructure self-assembly eliminate need for extreme heating and controlled cooling
University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...
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Sequencing DNA by converting it into an accordion molecule
Kokoris came up with the idea of solving some of the noise issue of nanopore sequencing by converting DNA into larger surrogate polymers, and he cofounded sequencing company Stratos Genomics back in ...