Researchers develop artificial building blocks of life

For the first time, scientists have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the laboratory

12-Mar-2024 - The DNA carries the genetic information of all living organisms and consists of only four different building blocks, the nucleotides. Nucleotides are composed of three distinctive parts: a sugar molecule, a phosphate group and one of the four nucleobases adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. ...