helix

We transformed the Supreme Court’s “Nothing to see here” into an avowal of the freedom to marry under the Constitution’s double helix of liberty and equality for all.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

Still, Harper and Yasmin’s existences are inextricably linked, gnarled together in a helix of favors and bargains.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 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

By coincidence, Pauling and Corey had also suggested a triple helix, with the bases A, C, G, and T pointed outside.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

Collins: You’re talking about genetic determinism, which implies that we are helpless marionettes being controlled by strings made of double helices.

From Scientific American ● May 20, 2020

“But I think the most surprising observation was that the proteins were embedded among the RNA helices, penetrating into the interior of the ribosome like tentacles.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018

For one thing, it draws a brilliant, eclectic crowd: I met a linguist turned classical musician, a minimalist sculptor fascinated by helices and a Jungian writer at work on a dystopian novel.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2018

Watson and Crick proposed that each DNA strand was used to generate a copy of itself—thereby generating two double helices from the original double helix.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The best designs were made of three helixes connected like sausage links by short strings of amino acids.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2021

Profundities leap out from the business of an ordinary day in this experimental novel, told in helixes of text meant to immerse the reader in the protagonist’s thoughts.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020

For now, these protein helixes can’t convey genetic information that cells can read.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 21, 2016

But Mariana Medina-Sánchez, one of the researchers, cautioned that further research is needed to make sure the helixes aren’t harmful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2016

The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari