In an open access paper in Molecular Frontiers Journal, the helix types adopted by peptides, DNA, and RNA, are revisited by Professor Martin Egli from Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville Tennessee and Dr Shuguang Zhang from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. They review examples of right and wrong helical models in science, art, and elsewhere.
Writing in their paper, the authors comment: 'The logo of the Eagle's DNA beer brand served in the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, UK, is a particularly embarrassing case: it depicts a left-handed DNA double helix carried by an eagle. Even after a few beers, the fact remains that this is not the secret of life that James Watson and Francis Crick found as per their announcement to the crowd in the Eagle Pub on February 28, 1953.'
