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Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:11 pm**

Fifty-nine years after James Watson and Francis Crick deduced the double-helix structure of DNA, a scientist has captured the first direct photograph of the twisted ladder that props up life.

Enzo Di Fabrizio, a physics professor at Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, snapped the picture using an electron microscope.

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Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:48 pm**

He must have better eyes than I do

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:49 pm**

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:56 pm**

Di Fabrizio's innovation will allow scientists to vividly observe interactions between DNA and some of life's other essential ingredients, such as RNA (r ibonucleic acid ).

also very skeptical of this....i think there's some neat science here with some shitty shitty science reporting

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:22 am**

Doombrain wrote:epic

Yes indeed.

I did wonder how they capture "the shot".

.....Di Fabrizio and his colleagues developed a plan to bring DNA out of hiding. They built a nanoscopic landscape of extremely water-repellant silicon pillars. When they added a solution that contained strands of DNA into this scene, the water quickly evaporated and left behind cords of bare DNA that stretched like tightropes ......

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:17 pm**

GONNAFISTYA wrote:snapped the picture using an electron microscope

Maybe they could use that camera to find EtUL's bicep.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:30 pm**

Allah works in mysterious ways.

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