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Nature 421, 421-422 (23 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/nature01404
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feature Portrait of a molecule
Philip Ball
Abstract
The double helix is idealized for its aesthetic elegant structure, but the reality of DNA's physical existence is quite different. Most DNA in the cell is compressed into a tangled package that somehow still exposes itself to meticulous gene-regulatory control. Philip Ball holds a mirror up to what we truly know about the mysteries of DNA's life inside a cell.
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