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VINOGRAD, Jerome (1913 – 1976)

1913 – 1976

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1965 CE

#13963

The twisted circular form of polyoma viral DNA.

Discovery of DNA supercoiling. DNA supercoiling refers to the amount of twist in a particular DNA strand, which determines the amount of strain on it. A given strand may be "positively supercoiled" or "negatively supe…