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Perseverance carries on one of its wheels a symbol of Mars rover tracks twisted into the double helix shape of DNA.

HOW MARS ROVERS HAVE EVOLVED IN 25 YEARS OF EXPLORING THE RED PLANETALEXANDRA WITZEAUGUST 5, 2022SCIENCE NEWS

This forms a delicate structure that often resembles a helix or rumpled bedsheets.

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Once detected, Cas9 hones in on the site and efficiently cuts the double helix strands.

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It’s probably unfair, but from my point of view, the others aren’t as exciting as the discovery of the double helix.

HOW WE GOT FROM GREGOR MENDEL’S PEA PLANTS TO MODERN GENETICSELIZABETH QUILLFEBRUARY 7, 2022SCIENCE NEWS

After she helped identify the double helix shape of DNA, Franklin analyzed viruses.

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One of the last century’s most dramatic discoveries came in 1953, when James Watson and Francis Crick, aided by an X-ray image produced by Rosalind Franklin, figured out the double helix structure of the genetic molecule DNA.

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Scouring the human genome today, it’s clear we have viral DNA and other genetic elements embedded inside our own double helices.

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Based on enormously complicated biophysics—much of which remains mysterious—the string folds into delicate shapes, such as sheets of twisting and turning strands, or helices that wrap around each other.

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The largest is Helix pomatia (figured on pp. 11 and 12), which often goes by the name of “the edible snail.”

OUR BRITISH SNAILSJOHN WILLIAM HORSLEY

In 1878 he removed to Umatilla county, Oregon, where he took up a homestead and a timber culture near Helix.

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