IN 1914 Walter Jones began the preface to his monograph on nucleic acids with the words, “The nucleic acids constitute what is possibly the best understood field of Physiological Chemistry ...
They had the idea, based on Paul Lizardi's (now at Yale University) work on conformational changes of nucleic acids, to create probes that would allow amplification only when they changed their shape.
A new map from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals the regions of the U.S. where COVID-19 cases are on the rise. For the week ending November 23, around 4.