Sentences with phrase «only nucleic»

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The shortest chain of nucleic acids capable of replicating itself consists of only 6 molecules.

«It is the only known nucleic acid platform for treating such ailments and constitutes a new pipeline of therapeutics to address a broad swath of debilitating health conditions.»

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

«We've shown that these oviductosomes are carrying critical molecules that include not only proteins, but also nucleic acids such as RNA and also lipids,» DeLeon says.

Being derived from a sugar containing only four carbons, TNA is structurally the simplest of all potentially natural oligonucleotide - type nucleic acid alternatives studied thus far.

Nucleic acids are not only key molecules for the storage, replication and transcription of genetic information, but also serve as enzymes or regulators of a number of cell processes.

We reasoned that contamination from XMRV - infected LNCaP cells was more likely given that the laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic performing the nucleic acid extractions in 2004 was simultaneously working with LNCaP and had only worked with 22Rv1 more than 2 years prior.

Among it's valuable components are gamma - linolenic acid (GLA), linoleic and arachidonic acids, vitamin B12 (needed, especially for vegetarians, for healthy red blood cells), iron, a high level of protein (60 to 70 percent), essential amino acids, the nucleic acids RNA and DNA, chlorophyll, and phycocyanin, a blue pigment that is found only in blue - green algae and that has increased the survival rate of mice with liver cancer in laboratory experiments.