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In the helix grooves – how proteins find the DNA

This is one of those stories in science that is a little difficult to visualize. Let’s start with the shape of a DNA chromosome – a double helix, right? It looks a bit like a spiral staircase, with the rails being nucleotides and the steps being the bases. Now imagine descending a spiral staircase looking [...]
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