Here I describe early research on RNA structure and the discovery of the DNA-RNA hybrid helix, a key component of information transfer. More than 50 years ago it was realized that the interaction between DNA and RNA was at the core of molecular biology. The problem was chemical in nature: could two different types of molecules interact and serve in the transmission of biological information?
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Alexander Rich (2006) studied this question.
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