Scientists have discovered that bacteria employ a type of DNA modification never before seen in nature. For several decades, researchers have known that it is possible to modify synthetic ...

DNA phosphorothioate modification is a distinctive epigenetic alteration in which a non‐bridging oxygen atom within the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- DNA is made from four nucleosides, each known by its own letter -- A, G, C, and T. However, since the structure of DNA was deciphered in 1953, scientists have discovered several other ...

(Nanowerk News) DNA is made from four nucleosides, each known by its own letter — A, G, C, and T. However, since the structure of DNA was deciphered in 1953, scientists have discovered several other ...

DNA is made from four nucleosides, each known by its own letter -- A, G, C, and T. However, since the structure of DNA was deciphered in 1953, scientists have discovered several other variants that ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and China have described the surprising discovery and function of a new DNA modification in insects, worms, and algae. Common DNA modifications occur ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago, Harvard University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have described the surprising discovery and function of a new DNA modification in insects, worms and ...

Thomas W. van Ravesteyn, Marleen Dekker, Alexander Fish, Titia K. Sixma, Astrid Wolters, Rob J. Dekker, Hein P. J. te Riele Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of ...

DNA is the basic building block of the genes that form the instructions to the cells on their birth, maturity, functions and eventually death. Understanding the chemistry of DNA is possibly the most ...

More and more research is going into stopping cancer and other diseases before they start. That is the basis for public health areas like traditional epidemiology; however, epigenetics is a newer ...