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RNA-Quadruplex – the dance of the guanines

Posted on July 9, 2011 by tfester

RNA-molecules form a variety of different structures and here is one of the more unusual ones: a quadruplex formed by the interaction of guanines form four different stretches of the molecule… Continue reading →

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DNA – beyond the double helix (I)

Posted on July 21, 2010 by tfester

When Watson and Crick described the structure of DNA many years ago, the concept of the double helix was new and exiting. Nowadays this concept is dominating visual presentations of DNA to such a degree that it dominates other, more important features of the molecule(s). These features are the topic of the following post Continue reading →

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