helix
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One of the most dangerous forms of damage is a double-strand break, which happens when both strands of the DNA helix are cut at the same time.
From Science Daily
Form and content, the visual and the physical, create art’s spellbinding double helix.
From Los Angeles Times
Watson shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Crick for the DNA's double helix structure discovery.
From BBC
When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.
Normally, alpha-synuclein's natural or "native state" is like a flexible strand, but when active it shapes itself into a helix, which is critical for its function in binding and transporting parcels of dopamine.
From Science Daily
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