DNA is found in nearly all living cells ... distances between the nucleotides that were arranged in a spiral shape called a helix. Around the same time, researchers James Watson and Francis ...

like a spiral staircase. This structure, announced in their famous paper in the April 1953 issue of Nature, explained how the DNA molecule could replicate itself during cell division, enabling ...

In their paper, the scientists describe its movement as a "helical inchworm," meaning that it shifts between two states—a ...

The DNA molecule was composed of the traditional sugar backbones and nucleotide pairs, but rather than the well-known right-handed spiral of the double helix structure, famously discovered by Watson ...

Groundbreaking research reveals the Oort Cloud's shape as a spiral structure, challenging traditional beliefs about its random collection. NASA's Pleiades supercomputer simulations suggest the ...

Histones are a family of basic proteins that associate with DNA ... spiral called a solenoid, where additional H1 histone proteins are associated with each nucleosome to maintain the chromosome ...