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  • I doubt that Bradford will agree, as he seems to think that papers published in Nucleic Acids Research are far more important than those published in Science or Nature or Cell.

    Another Protozoan and Front-Loading 2006

  • Nucleic-acid chains are notoriously fragile, and tend to snap long before they have acquired the fifty or so base pairs needed for them to act as enzymes.

    Berlinski stirring the pot 2010

  • Nucleic acid amplification assays are now an integral and necessary part of the Virology Laboratory and continuous improvement, automation, and simplification of the technology have made these tests easier and more accessible to use.

    Virology Laboratory 2010

  • Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) themselves were not formed.

    Ambiguity Tolerance 2008

  • Nucleic acids and carboxyls (or whatever, its been a long time since I was in school, canchatell?) are relatively large classes (in the nested hierarchy), and why can't 16 amino acids work as well, or five different nts?

    An Amazing Design Material 2008

  • Church, “The cleavage site of the restriction endonuclease Ava II,” Nucleic Acids Research 5 1978, 2313–2319.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • (Nucleic protein synthesis actually occurs in cytoplasmic ribosomes.)

    Always finish what you start… 2008

  • Nucleic acids are not information retentive by definition.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • Nucleic acids have fixed chemical properties that do not vary with time.

    A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

  • Nucleic acids and proteins are among the working entities

    Molecular Biology Darden, Lindley 2009

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