Twists and Turns

The ability to look at the structure of DNA at the atomic level has been key to understanding this miraculous molecule, as scientist and illustrator David Goodsell discovers

The Biologist Vol 60(6) p18-22

In 1953, Watson and Crick presented their model for the DNA double helix, revealing the way genetic information is held in a cell. In the years since, DNA has proven to be a lively molecule that is looped, unwound, copied, repaired, edited, chemically modified, and more recently, engineered. A closer look at DNA's atomic structures (and its related cellular partners) has since revealed much more about the complex workings of this amazing molecule...

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