DNA Structure: twisted knot instead of a double helix

Nisarg Joshi

DNA, Epigenetics

DNA
2 days back, to show the importance of epigenetics in our evolution, I noted a point that, what we known as DNA is nothing but a well-groomed dogma. Double helix model is just another illusion. That was my hypothesis.
 
Lo! What do I read Today?
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Research

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In human cells, scientists find DNA that looks like a twisted knot instead of a double helix

It’s DNA, but not as we know it. In a world first, Australian researchers have identified a new DNA structure—called the i-motif—inside cells. A twisted ‘knot’ of DNA, the i-motif has never before been directly seen inside living cells.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-04-scientists-tracked-elusive-tangled-dna.html#jCp

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