{"id":23497,"date":"2016-03-14T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/researchers-create-new-triple-helix-structure-for-dna-many-potential-uses-in-chemistry-tissue-engineering-etc"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:20","slug":"researchers-create-new-triple-helix-structure-for-dna-many-potential-uses-in-chemistry-tissue-engineering-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/researchers-create-new-triple-helix-structure-for-dna-many-potential-uses-in-chemistry-tissue-engineering-etc","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create new triple helix structure for DNA \u2014 Many potential uses in chemistry, tissue engineering, etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-new-triple-helix-structure-for-dna-many-potential-uses-in-chemistry-tissue-engineering-etc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials?<\/p>\n<p>Cyanuric acid is commonly used to stabilize chlorine in backyard pools; it binds to free chlorine and releases it slowly in the water. But researchers at McGill University have now discovered that this same small, inexpensive molecule can also be used to coax DNA into forming a brand new structure: instead of forming the familiar double helix, DNA\u2019s nucleobases \u2014 which normally form rungs in the DNA ladder \u2014 associate with cyanuric acid molecules to form a triple helix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/newsroom\/channels\/news\/backyard-pool-chemical-nanomaterial-259330\">Read More ON Mcgill University<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futuristech.info\/posts\/researchers-create-new-triple-helix-structure-for-dna-many-potential-uses-in-chemistry-tissue-engineering-etc\">https:\/\/futuristech.info\/posts\/researchers-create-new-triple...eering-etc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials? Cyanuric acid is commonly used to stabilize chlorine in backyard pools; it binds to free chlorine and releases it slowly in the water. But researchers at McGill University have now discovered that this same small, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68031,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23497\/revisions\/68031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}