The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Discover That the Double Helix Isn't the Only DNA Form

One of the most familiar shapes in science is DNA’s double helix structure. First discovered in 1953, this structure uncovered a wealth of information about our genes and the DNA molecules that encode ...
Yahoo

Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals

In 1962, scientists James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. However, it has long been believed that the ...
Baylor College of Medicine

First step to untangle DNA: supercoiled DNA captures gyrase like a lasso ropes cattle

Picture in your mind a traditional “landline” telephone with a coiled cord connecting the handset to the phone. The coiled telephone cord and the DNA double helix that stores the genetic material in ...
Forbes

What Does DNA Look Like? After 66 Years, We're Still Learning More.

Exactly 66 years ago, on April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published their famous article that showed that the shape of DNA is a double helix. They weren’t able to see DNA directly - it’s ...