B-DNA is the most common form of DNA and has a right-handed double helix structure. A-DNA forms in a shorter, right-handed double helix. The function of this form is to protect DNA. DNA will ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a right-handed, antiparallel double-helix inside influenza ...

Why is the heart slightly on the left side of the body for most people? Why is DNA almost always a right-handed helix? Same with alpha helices, the building blocks of proteins. Chirality ...

is made of right-handed chiral molecules which combine to form a right-handed double helix. The left-handed version would look like its mirror image, forming a helix that spins in the opposite ...

Similarly, the DNA in all our bodies is right-handed (the double-helix twists to the right). The reasons are a mystery. Scientists have been making and studying enantiomers in the lab for a long ...

DNA, for instance, is made up of a right-handed double helix of sugars, like a ladder twisted only in a certain direction. Proteins, by contrast, are made up of left-handed amino acids.