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Scientists Map Twists In DNA That Could Unlock New Treatments For Cancer
But did you know that there are parts of your strands of DNA that don’t follow this shape; and instead they form a kind of ...
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Why is DNA almost always a right-handed helix? Exploring the causes of chirality
Why is DNA almost always a right-handed helix? Same with alpha helices ... Greg Huber, a biophysicist and researcher at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, spent three years exploring these ...
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Thymine (T): A Key Building Block of DNA
In the double helix structure of DNA, thymine forms a base pair with adenine through ... fewer hydrogen bonds compared to the guanine-cytosine (G-C) base pair, which has three hydrogen bonds. The ...
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A direct view of DNA repair and beyond
Although RAD51 and similar proteins had been implicated in this process for three decades ... travelling along single DNA strands, unwinding them from their usual helix shape.