{"id":242403,"date":"2026-08-08T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/your-dna-isnt-just-a-double-helix-scientists-just-found-what-else-its-hiding"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:32:10","slug":"your-dna-isnt-just-a-double-helix-scientists-just-found-what-else-its-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/your-dna-isnt-just-a-double-helix-scientists-just-found-what-else-its-hiding","title":{"rendered":"Your DNA Isn\u2019t Just a Double Helix. Scientists Just Found What Else It\u2019s Hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-dna-isnt-just-a-double-helix-scientists-just-found-what-else-its-hiding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix \u2013 the twisting, twin-stranded ladder that defines the shape of DNA molecules.<\/p>\n<p>But not all DNA follows this same recognizable pattern. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/mmbr.00110-20\">Alternative kinds of DNA structures do exist<\/a>, and new technologies are helping to reveal them.<\/p>\n<p>In a study last year, scientists identified where these \u201cnon-canonical\u201d forms of DNA (aka non\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nucleic_acid_double_helix\">B DNA<\/a>) emerge in human and other primate genomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix \u2013 the twisting, twin-stranded ladder that defines the shape of DNA molecules. But not all DNA follows this same recognizable pattern. Alternative kinds of DNA structures do exist, and new technologies are helping to reveal them. In a study last year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242403","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}