Atomic force microscopy image (left) and simulation (right) of a piece of human DNA. In the latter the green line is the initial DNA chain while the black lines are equilibrium conformations. Both show the intrinsic curvature of human DNA.
From the article:
Probing Persistence in DNA Curvature Properties with Atomic Force MicroscopyJ. Moukhtar, E. Fontaine, C. Faivre-Moskalenko, and A. Arneodo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 178101 (2007)
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