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 ...
More than 50 years passed before the significance of Miescher's discovery of nucleic acids was widely appreciated by the scientific community. For instance, in a 1971 essay on the history of ...
Improve assay sensitivity and specificity with Locked Nucleic Acid oligonucleotides (LNA oligos) from LGC Biosearch Technologies. LNAs are RNA bases in which the ribose is “locked” with a ...