In everyday life, our genetic material is constantly under attack from many factors. Environmental influences such as light, ...

DNA can be used as a building block for future molecular-scale electronic circuits because it can form a variety of 3D structures and networks. Thanks to a new three-terminal electronic circuit ...

However, the exact shape of these guanine crystals and how they work remained a mystery. The researchers extracted guanine crystals from the skin of the Japanese Koi fish and analyzed the crystals ...

Scientists from Fuzhou University obtained a set of nanocarbons through self-assembling guanine molecules. Besides exhibiting intriguing properties, including relatively stable surface oxygen groups ...

Colour changes in chameleons are due to structural changes inside skin cells and not chemistry It’s all about guanine nanocrystals. What? Guanine nanocrystals. Many chameleons are capable of ...

For scientists attempting to understand how the building blocks of RNA originated on Earth, guanine has proven to be a particular challenge. By adding UV light to a model prebiotic reaction, ...

Biogenic guanine crystals are naturally occurring photonic structures that underpin a range of optical phenomena in the biological world. These crystals, formed within specialised cells, exhibit ...