Researchers were investigating the wound-healing properties of deoxyribose, a sugar critical in the structure of DNA. While applying the sugar to skin injuries on laboratory mice, scientists ...

Later it was found that the sugar in nucleic acid can be ribose or deoxyribose ... Scientists still needed to figure out this molecule's structure to be sure, and to understand how it worked.

It all started with research on a sugar that naturally occurs in the body and helps form DNA: the 'deoxyribose' part of deoxyribonucleic acid. While studying how these sugars heal the wounds of ...

The basic units (monomers) of DNA are nucleotides. These nucleotides consist of a deoxyribose sugar, phosphate and base. The nucleotides are identical except for the base, which can be an adenine ...