They are especially sensitive to depurination, deamination, depyrimidination, hydrolytic cleavage, nuclease contamination, and oxidation. Incorrect temperatures, contamination from nearby samples, and ...

A nucleic acid is a long molecule made up of smaller molecules called nucleotides. Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a ...

activation in response to nucleic acids, according to a recent study. ADA2, previously known for its role in catalyzing the deamination of adenosine to inosine, is revealed to function as an ...