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Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology
3rd Edition
Nucleic Acids in Chemistry
and Biology
3rd Edition
Edited by
G. Michael Blackburn
Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Michael J. Gait
Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
David Loakes
Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
David M. Williams
Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
ISBN-10: 0-85404-654-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-85404-654-6
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Foreword
It was just 62 years ago that we finally learned that DNA was the ic material – the master blueprint
of life. Since then, the nucleic acids DNA and RNA have been studied in exquisite