The normal, hydrogen-bonded base pairs found in DNA. Credit: MIT The new paper, released by Nature today, uses the synthetic bases shown at top.

Genetic alphabet with three base pairs (instead of two) could lead to six-base mRNAs encoding 216 amino acids (instead of 64), and resulting proteins could be made from 172 (instead of 20) amino ...

This pair-bonding behavior is uncommon in the animal world. Prairie voles also exhibit bi-parental care of vole pups. Yet prairie voles are not commonly used in genetic studies in the same way as ...

Sherry Xi Chen, David Yu Zhang, Georg Seelig. Conditionally fluorescent molecular probes for detecting single base changes in double-stranded DNA. Nature Chemistry, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1713 ...

Discovering the role of ‘love hormone’ oxytocin, in pair bonding could pave the way for improving the lives of people struggling to find a social connection, suggests a new study.

The results indicate that the biology underlying pair bonding and parenting isn't purely dictated by the receptors for oxytocin, sometimes referred to as the “love hormone.” ...

For the first time the team discovered a way to accurately edit RNA base pairs in human cells. Dubbed "REPAIR" this system also focuses on base editing but this time is targeted at RNA.