Here's What DNA Really Looks Like

There’s more to DNA than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on unfamiliar forms, each of which can have a different impact on our health.

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Sources:
General overviews of alternate DNA structures:
https://www.intechopen.com/books/dna-replication-current-advances/dna-structure-alphabet-soup-for-the-cellular-soul
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6545/
http://people.bu.edu/mfk/restricted566/dnastructure.pdf

B-DNA and history of the double helix:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397/

A-DNA:
https://journals.iucr.org/q/issues/1953/08-09/00/a00979/a00979.pdf

Z-DNA:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0237-x

H-DNA:
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/101/37/13448.full.pdf

G-quadruplexes:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516791/

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