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It's a double helix.
You'll be familiar with the double helix of DNA.
This is DNA in its classic double helix form.
If we unwind the double helix and unzip the two strands, you see these things that look like teeth.
Your genetic information is strung into a long and twisted molecule, the DNA double helix, that has over three billion letters, beginning to end.
The damage comes in the form of a double-strand break through the double helix.
The guide RNA and the Cas9 protein complex together go bouncing along the genome, and when they find a spot where the guide RNA matches, then it inserts between the two strands of the double helix, it rips them apart, that triggers the Cas9 protein to cut, and all of a sudden, you've got a cell that's in total panic because now it's got a piece of DNA that's broken.
It's double-stranded, it's a double helix, has the As, Ts, Cs and Gs that pair to hold the strands together.
We want to look at individual strands and not think about the double helix.
You mix them together and they make a rigid double helix.
And you can see a little bit of double helix forming there.
When you look at DNA origami, you can see that what it really is, even though you think it's complicated, is a bunch of double helices that are parallel to each other, and they're held together by places where short strands go along one helix and then jump to another one.
He certainly wasn't smiling when I got there, because he was somewhat humiliated by Pauling getting the alpha helix, and the Cambridge people failing because they weren't chemists.
So Wilkins said he thought it was the helix.
X-ray diagram, he thought was comparable with the helix.
And the warhead in CRISPR is this purple protein that acts like molecular scissors to cut DNA, breaking the double helix into two pieces.
Because in order to be stable in cells, the two strands of a DNA double helix have to form base pairs.
Once inside, when the cell exposes its DNA in order to copy it, they damage the building blocks of DNA’s double helix structure, which can lead to cell death unless the damage is repaired.