For the first time, scientists have witnessed the very moment DNA begins to unravel, revealing a necessary molecular event ...

that the DNA molecule exists in the form of a three-dimensional double helix. More than 50 years passed before the significance of Miescher's discovery of nucleic acids was widely appreciated by ...

Franklin, working mostly alone, found that her x-ray diffractions showed that the "wet" form of DNA (in the higher humidity) had all the characteristics of a helix. She suspected that all DNA was ...

Instead of binding to DNA through the insertion of an α-helix into the DNA major groove — a motif which is used by the ubiquitous helix–turn–helix family of transcription factors — RHH ...

Researchers at the Chambers University of Technology have discovered that water is why DNA strands are wrapped around each other and have a helix shape. Understanding how DNA repairs itself could ...