Solving ancient problem of nucleic acid synthesis helps to design new antiviral drugs

(University of Turku) An international team of scientists from the University of Turku, Finland and PennState University, USA have solved a long-standing mystery of how living organisms distinguish RNA and DNA building blocks during gene expression paving the way for the design of new antiviral drugs. The new insights were published in the journalNature Communications.
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