What better way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of Watson and Crick’s landmark paper on the double helix structure of DNA than by making your own double-helix out of jellybabies and licorice? Dr Mark Lorch’s method for making edible DNA models promises to capture the “elegant simplicity” of DNA.
You’ll need:
Two long, flexible sweets, such as liquorice ribbons.
A few handfuls of soft, highly coloured sweets, such as jelly babies or marshmallows.
Cocktail sticks.
For advance bio-engineers, Lorch also explains how to extract the DNA from a kiwi fruit using things lying around your kitchen.
How to make a DNA double helix from jelly babies and liquorice [Dr Mark Lorch/Guardian]
(via Neatorama)