I-motifs are intercalated cytosine quadruplexes discovered in 1993, but they weren’t shown to exist in the cell nucleus until 2018. While their biological role has yet to be fully elucidated, they have been implicated in regulating expression of s...
Programmed interactions of nucleic acids—including DNA and RNA—orchestrate genetic expression and downstream cellular processes at every level. The structures of nucleic acids rely on their sequences, which include traditional Watson-Crick base pa...
ABSTRACTAndrew Dale Gunnink. The Carbon Process. (Under the direction of Dr. Aaron Gwyn)Mark Bovert is a brilliant geneticist and plant biologist at MIT who is developing an experiment that will attempt to permanently fix the frailties of the huma...