Boiling Springs Lake RNA–DNA hybrid virus (BSL RDHV, for short) is a single-stranded DNA virus with a circular genome, identified in acidic lake samples in Boiling Springs Lake in Lassen Volcanic ...

For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

A History in Hybridization and Structure Alexander Rich and David Davies discover the double-stranded RNA helix and show that polyribo U and polyribo A hybridize spontaneously.6 Ben Hall and Sol ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

Finding a naturally occurring DNA-protein hybrid and determining how a bacterium ... a ring structure like the bases that allow DNA and RNA to pair with other DNA or RNA molecules.

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

RNA molecules carry instructions from DNA for making proteins that carry ... builds on a previously developed technique called Hybridization Chain Reaction, or HCR. The technique assembles ...