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First description of a triple DNA helix in vacuum - A team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have managed for the first time to extract trustworthy structural information from a triple helix DNA in gas phase, that is to say in conditions in which DNA is practically in a vacuum. Reference: 'The Structure of Triplex DNA in the Gas Phase,' A. Arcella et al, J.Am.Chem.Soc (2012), doi: 10.1021/ja209786t