Normally, humans have five to 55 repetitions of the nucleotides CGG (cytosine, guanine, guanine) in this region.
Working with only the four basic nucleotides that make up all DNA adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine he has assembled an entirely new chromosome for an entirely new one .
He realized that "an adenine-thymine pair held together by two hydrogen bonds was identical in shape to a guanine-cytosine pair.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Announces Publication of Preclinical Data for Novel Anti-Cancer Compound RX-3117 Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing potential best-in-class oncology therapies, today announced the on-line publication of preclinical results for RX-3117 in a peer reviewed medical journal, Investigational New Drugs, in an article titled, “Metabolism, mechanism of action and sensitivity profile of fluorocyclopentenylcytosine ”.
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