helix
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Each double helix contains vast arrays of chemical subunits that function like the zeroes and ones in a computer program.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
You can look at friendship as a journey that is like a double helix: Sometimes you and a friend will be in sync financially or emotionally, and other times you’ll be out of alignment.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
Form and content, the visual and the physical, create art’s spellbinding double helix.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
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 • Oct. 8, 2025
Working with crystals, Pauling had found that proteins frequently folded into an archetypal substructure—a single helix coiled like a spring.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing helix
"Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone, Chapters 28–37
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