Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne reports that misincorporation of ribonucleotides into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) initiates an inflammatory cascade. Subscribe to ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 69, No. 5 (2018), pp. 905-907 (3 pages) A raft of recent studies, including a new paper by Zhao et al. (2018), has shed new light on the importance of cellular ...

DNA is admired for its perfection as a programmable information molecule: it uses repeating polymerization chemistry to link four nucleotide building blocks (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine) ...

The enzymes studied are tRNA nucleotidyltransferases: enzymes that attach three nucleotide building blocks in the sequence C-C-A to small RNAs in the cell (so-called transfer RNAs) so that they can ...

This image is an overview of manganese transport and role in providing nucleotide building blocks for DNA. The red, blue and brown shapes are components of the complex that transports manganese into ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS), a leading enzyme engineering company, today announced it has achieved gram-scale synthesis with its ...

A new study from scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that emerging drugs that activate the protein STING, a well-established regulator of immune cell activation, ...