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I'm lucky to be able to say that I have looked at DNA firsthand or as close as we can get to firsthand with current experimental techniques. I did my graduate work with Richard Dickerson at UCLA, and at the time his lab was interested in sorting out the fine structure of the DNA helix. A previous graduate student had solved the structure of a short piece of DNA, 12 nucleotides long, revealing a complex inner structure to the double helix and an interesting interaction with the surrounding water. When I joined, the lab was exploring other pieces of DNA and also the interaction of DNA with drugs and proteins.
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Goodsell, D.S. (2016). The Twists and Turns of DNA. In: Atomic Evidence. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32510-1_4
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