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Light-up DNA switches for programmable molecular logic and sensing

Fluorogenic DNA aptamers produce light only in the correct structural state, enabling programmable molecular logic, ...
Colossal

Tomohiro Okazaki’s ‘Paper Study’ Transforms a Quotidian Material into Mesmerizing Animations

Japanese designer Tomohiro Okazaki is known for his playful animations using matches and other household objects.
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Breakthrough platform reveals the choreography of mammalian transcription

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

DNA transcription is a tightly choreographed event: How RNA polymerase II regulates the dance

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...
Nature

DNA articles from across Nature Portfolio

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...