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There is nothing good that I can say about the novel coronavirus, its resulting pandemic, or the severe toll it has taken on lives and the economy. However, there is an important lesson that may come ...

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In 1979, Alexander Rich, PhD, and his colleagues solved the structure of a self-complementary DNA hexamer and discovered that the molecule formed a left-handed double helix (Z-DNA). (Credit: Journal ...