title: Doing the right things.
abstract: This letter identifies recent examples of misrepresentation of biological helical structures and expresses concern about the continuing indulgent attitude towards distortion of scientific facts. It also teaches a simple trick to distinguish right- from left-handedness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University and Center for Biocrystallographic Research, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Mariusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jaskolski
mesh_terms: D003461:Crystallography; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D007536:Isomerism; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation
chemical_list: D004247:DNA
keywords: B-DNA; Z-DNA; handedness of helical structures; representation of scientific facts; structural biology; understanding science