{"id":78015,"date":"2018-04-24T00:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/move-over-double-helix-a-new-form-of-dna-has-just-been-discovered"},"modified":"2018-04-24T00:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T07:28:43","slug":"move-over-double-helix-a-new-form-of-dna-has-just-been-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/move-over-double-helix-a-new-form-of-dna-has-just-been-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Move Over, Double Helix: A New Form of DNA Has Just Been Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/move-over-double-helix-a-new-form-of-dna-has-just-been-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know about the double helix structure of DNA, but researchers have described a type of DNA that\u2019s never been observed in a living cell: i-motif DNA. This knot-shaped DNA uses nucleotides differently than helical DNA, and scientists suspect it plays a regulatory role in the cell.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/44011-dna-shape-knot-i-motif-double-helix\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/44011-dna-shape-knot-i-motif-double-helix<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know about the double helix structure of DNA, but researchers have described a type of DNA that\u2019s never been observed in a living cell: i-motif DNA. This knot-shaped DNA uses nucleotides differently than helical DNA, and scientists suspect it plays a regulatory role in the cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78015","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}