X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Helix


N-myc-interactor

NMYC interactor (NMI) interacts with NMYC and CMYC (two members of the oncogene Myc family), and other transcription factors containing a Zip, HLH, or HLH-Zip motif.

Shaper

Its cut is analogous to that of a lathe, except that it is (archetypally) linear instead of helical.


30th Anniversary Concert

Vollmer first encountered the Wiechmanns in Newfoundland when their band, KAOS, opened for Helix on the 1985 Long Way to Heaven tour.

Angélique Arvanitaki

Arvanitaki contributed to the field of neurophysiology with research that explored the giant nerve fibres in genera of gastropods, the sea hare Aplysia and the land snail Helix.

Angus McKie

His illustrations often present highly detailed spacecraft against vividly colored backgrounds and high-tech constructions as demonstrated by his pioneering work on The Dome: Ground Zero for DC Comics imprint Helix in 1998.

Back for Another Taste

"Good To The Last Drop" (Cassette single release only: B-side track "S.E.X. Rated" remains unreleased on CD to date in this version, as it is a different recording than that on the Helix B-Sides CD.

Bembridge Beds

The Bembridge marls, freshwater, estuarine and marine clays and marls (70–120 ft.) rest upon the Bembridge limestone, a freshwater pool deposit (15–25 ft.), with large land snails (Amphidromus and Helix), freshwater snails (Planorbis, Lymnaea), and the fruits of Chara.

Black Bridge

The plethora of metal music featured in the film was generously contributed by Winnipeg metal acts Lawsuit and Labyrinth along with Canadian metal acts Goat Horn, Betrayer, Kick Axe, Thor, Anvil, Helix, Brighton Rock, Trained Bears and the American group Geronimo!

Ceefax

The first system employed a modified Muirhead drum facsimile transmitter, and hard-copy printer using pressure-sensitive "till-roll" paper passing over a drum with a raised helix of steel wire.

Christopher Hinz

He also co-created and wrote the Dead Corps four-issue limited series for Helix, and a ten-issue story arc for Marvel's Blade which comprised Volume 2 of the series.

Chuk

CHUK, the Conserved helix-loop-helix ubiquitous kinase (also known as IKKα or IKK1)

Helicoid

Its name derives from its similarity to the helix: for every point on the helicoid, there is a helix contained in the helicoid which passes through that point.

Jaguar!

You can sometimes hear the roaring of the Jaguar, activated when the train enters the helix located at the end of the coaster.

Jason Temujin Minor

In 1997 Minor co-created the science fiction mini-series, "BrainBanx", with writer Elaine Lee for the short lived Helix imprint of DC Comics.

Logan Whitehurst

Logan was also an accomplished graphic designer, creating numerous album covers for bands such as his sister's Tsunami Bomb, in addition to Dynamite Boy, Little Tin Frog, The Velvet Teen, 20 Minute Loop, Go Time, Shut Up Donny, Santiago, and labels such as Fearless Records, Restitution Records, Silent Records and Entertainment, and Double Helix Records.

Long Way to Heaven

The audio track was not available for purchase until the Helix Deep Cuts compilation of 1999.

MKX

MKX is a member of an Iroquois (IRX) family-related class of 'three-amino acid loop extension' (TALE) atypical homeobox proteins characterized by 3 additional amino acids in the loop region between helix I and helix II of the homeodomain.

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

Life Story (tv film) a BBC dramatization about the scientific race to discover the DNA double-helix.

PiP Animation Services

In 1999, Pip partnered with imX communications Inc., and Funbag Animation Studios Inc. to announce two new animation production companies: Helix Animation Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Helix Digital Inc. in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Sandahl Bergman

Other appearances include a lunar base officer in the movie Airplane II: The Sequel, the music video "Heavy Metal Love" by the band Helix and the Fred Olen Ray film Possessed by the Night, and guest appearances on television, such as Hart to Hart and Moonlighting.

Signal recognition particle RNA

The largest SRP RNAs known to date are found in the yeasts (Saccharomycetes) which acquired helices 9 to 12 as insertions into helix 5, as well as an extended helix 7.

Signer

Rudolf Signer (1903-1990) contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix.

Sovremenny-class destroyer

The ship's helicopter pad and telescopic hangar accommodates one Kamov Ka-27 anti-submarine warfare helicopter, NATO codename Helix.

SWTPC

SWTPC's SS-50 backplane bus was also supported or used by other manufacturers: (Midwest Scientific Inc, Smoke Signal Broadcasting, Gimix, Helix, Tano, Percom Data, Safetran), etc.

The 3tards

The 3tards music has been compared with a wide variety of bands from a large spectrum of genres, including Frank Zappa, The Dead Milkmen, Forgotten Rebels, Dayglo Abortions, Scatterbrain, Helix, Dropkick Murphys, Quiet Riot, M.O.D., The Dead Kennedys, and many more.

The Double Helix

Wilkins, Maurice, The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography (2003), Oxford U Press, ISBN 0-19-860665-6

The Masque of Mandragora

The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee features an energy helix that is strongly implied to be the same one featured in The Masque of Mandragora.

Triple-stranded DNA

Watson and Crick (who later won the Nobel Prize for their double-helix model) originally considered a triple-helix model, as did Pauling and Corey, who published a proposal for their triple-helix model in the 1953 scientific journal Nature, as well as fellow scientist Fraser.

Vlaardingse Vaart Bridge

The Vlaardingse Vaart Bridge (also called The Twist) is a helical truss bridge for pedestrian and bicycle traffic in Vlaardingen, Netherlands.

What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

Crick comments on various aspects of the DNA double helix discovery and gives a qualified endorsement to the 1987 television movie Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Jim Watson and Tim Piggott-Smith as Francis Crick.

William Astbury

Interestingly, Neurath's paper and Astbury's data inspired H. S. Taylor (1941,1942) and Maurice Huggins (1943) to propose models of keratin that are very close to the modern α-helix.

Zeraphine

However, since the Helix name was taken by another band, they were forced to rename themselves Zeraphine – taken from the Hebrew Bible’s concepts of the seraph (or seraphim), a class of angel in traditional Judaism and Orthodox Christianity.


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