For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

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It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own version. Cornell researchers have discovered that DNA packaging structures ...