For a long time, Venus has been considered too hostile for life as we know it. Its thick clouds are filled with droplets of ...

Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life very ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Cells change their metabolic profiles in ...

College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Sensing, College of Biological and Chemical Engineering, ...

Finally, the building blocks of DNA (deoxyribonuclease), the blueprint of life, are made up of four nitrogenous bases. We can breathe ... be broken down to nitric acid – another natural source ...

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a form of nucleic acid ... deoxyribose), an attached phosphate group, and one of four nitrogenous bases. Three of these four nitrogenous bases—adenine, cytosine, ...

Division of Physical Biology, CAS Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China ...

The two strands are held together by hydrogen bonds between complementary bases (A = T and C ≡ G). The sugar-phosphate sections of DNA are often referred to as the ‘backbone’ of the DNA structure, ...

The experiment was conducted in a dry shed (112°40′5″E, 37°33′22″N) at the Dongyang Experimental Demonstration Base of Shanxi Academy of Agricultural ... as well as predicting their gene function.

Potentially, urea utilization also results in nitrogen recycling at the level of the host. Nitrogen acquisition is critical for herbivorous insects, as plant material is nitrogen-poor. In some other ...