Helix Magazine — The Helix , or Helix Magazine, is a Central Connecticut State University student run biannual publication. It publishes mostly CSU, notably CCSU student writing and artwork, including poetry, short fiction, playwright, creative non fiction,… … Wikipedia
Chain-link fencing — Chainlink redirects here. For other uses, see Chainlink (disambiguation). Chain link fencing showing the diamond patterning. A chain link fence (also referred to as wire netting, chain wire fence, cyclone fence or hurricane fence) is a type of… … Wikipedia
Helix of sustainability — The helix of sustainability is a concept coined to help manufacturing industry move to more sustainable practices by mapping its models of raw material use and reuse onto those of nature.The environmental benefits of the use crop origin… … Wikipedia
helix — [ hi:lɪks] noun (plural helices hi:lɪsi:z, hɛl ) 1》 an object having a three dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase. ↘Biochemistry an extended… … English new terms dictionary
Alpha helix — A common motif in the secondary structure of proteins, the alpha helix (α helix) is a right handed coiled conformation, resembling a spring, in which every backbone N H group donates a hydrogen bond to the backbone C=O group of the amino acid… … Wikipedia
Nucleic acid double helix — Double helix redirects here. For other uses, see Double helix (disambiguation). Two complementary regions of nucleic acid molecules will bind and form a double helical structure held together by base pairs. In molecular biology, the term double… … Wikipedia
Polymerase chain reaction optimization — The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a commonly used molecular biology tool for amplifying DNA, and various techniques for PCR optimization have been developed by molecular biologists to improve PCR performance and minimize failure. Contents 1… … Wikipedia
Pi helix — Side view of a standard π helix of L alanine residues in atomic detail. Two hydrogen bonds to the same peptide group are highlighted in magenta; the oxygen hydrogen distance is 1.65 Å (165 pm). The protein chain runs upwards, i.e., its N terminus … Wikipedia
Polymerase chain reaction — PCR redirects here. For other uses, see PCR (disambiguation). A strip of eight PCR tubes, each containing a 100 μl reaction mixture The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a scientific technique in molecular biology to amplify a single or a… … Wikipedia
Polyproline helix — In proteins, a left handed polyproline II helix (PPII, poly Pro II) is formed when sequential residues all adopt (φ,ψ) backbone dihedral angles of roughly ( 75°, 150°) and have trans isomers of their peptide bonds. Similarly, a more compact right … Wikipedia