The Scientist4mon
DNA Polymerase Works in Short Bursts Rather than One Long Stretch
Biology lectures teach students that when a cell’s replication machinery comes together, DNA polymerase takes off down the double-helix like a car on a highway ...
Acurx new patent granted by JPO related to DNA Polymerase IIIC Inhibitors
Pharmaceuticals announced that a new patent has been granted by the Japanese Patent Office, JPO, in January 2025. This patent ...
Nature3y
RNA polymerase
RNA polymerase is an enzyme that is responsible for copying a DNA sequence into an RNA sequence, duyring the process of transcription. As complex molecule composed of protein subunits, RNA ...
The Scientist3mon
A Novel Polymerase Reduces Stutter in Forensic DNA Analysis
Forensic DNA profiling uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify short tandem repeats (STRs), which are highly variable DNA regions, typically with four repeating bases. This variability helps ...
Nature2y
RNA Transcription by RNA Polymerase: Prokaryotes vs Eukaryotes
Gene expression is linked to RNA transcription, which cannot happen without RNA polymerase. However, this is where the similarities between prokaryote and eukaryote expression end. Central to the ...
JPO Grants Acurx Pharmaceuticals Patent in Japan for DNA Polymerase IIIC Inhibitors
Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACXP) ("Acurx" or the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of small molecule antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial ...
Hosted on MSN1mon
Breakthrough study maps critical structure of Nipah virus polymerase
The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...
Hackaday5y
Put The Power Of PCR In Your Pocket With This Open-Source Thermal Cycler
When the first thermal cyclers for the polymerase chain reaction came out in the 1980s, they were as expensive as a market driven by grant money could make them. Things haven’t got much better ...
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Acurx Pharmaceuticals’ DNA Polymerase IIIC Inhibitors receives Japanese patent
Acurx Pharmaceuticals’ DNA Polymerase IIIC Inhibitors receives Japanese patent: Staten Island, New York Thursday, February 20, 2025, 18:00 Hrs [IST] Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., ...
Science Daily1mon
Scientists uncover structure of critical component in deadly Nipah virus
Experiments in cells showe how changes in the viral polymerase -- a protein involved in viral replication -- can alter the virus's ability to make copies of itself and infect cells. Further ...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute3mon
A Portrait of RNA Polymerase
There are a variety of different types of RNA polymerases that can transcribe different types of RNA. RNA polymerase II, shown here, is responsible for creating messenger RNA (mRNA), which is the main ...