In the double helix structure of DNA, thymine forms a base pair with adenine through two hydrogen bonds. This specific pairing is known as complementary base pairing and is essential for the stability ...

Adenine can exist in different tautomeric forms, with the amino group (-NH 2) at position 6 being the most stable. This tautomerism is crucial for the correct base pairing with thymine or uracil, as ...

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...

Now, researchers at Harvard University have designed a new class of adenine base editors (ABEs) that can efficiently turn A-T into G-C, opening up the majority of pathogenic point mutations for ...

Because there are four naturally occurring nitrogenous bases, there are four different types of DNA nucleotides: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C). Within double-stranded DNA ...

adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. Furthermore, spin system simulations analyzed the electric field gradient data of adjacent bases, showing that for nitrogen atoms bonded with to atoms in ...