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helix

[hee-liks] / ˈhi lɪks /








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Form and content, the visual and the physical, create art’s spellbinding double helix.

From Los Angeles Times

Watson shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Crick for the DNA's double helix structure discovery.

From BBC

When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal

Normally, alpha-synuclein's natural or "native state" is like a flexible strand, but when active it shapes itself into a helix, which is critical for its function in binding and transporting parcels of dopamine.

From Science Daily

This is because the layers of helices stuck together are too big to be the building blocks of nanofibers.

From Science Daily