Strands of Four

Jul 21, 2020

Researchers have spotted a quadruple-stranded form of DNA within healthy human cells, New Scientist reports. It notes that such four-stranded DNA has been observed before in cancer cells and in some lab settings, but never in healthy human cells.

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