WE wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A ... available to us in advance of publication. Their model consists of three intertwined chains, with the phosphates ...

In fact, Watson and Crick were worried that they would be "scooped" by Pauling, who proposed a different model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA just months before they did. In the end ...

Later it was found that the sugar in nucleic acid can be ribose or deoxyribose ... Crick made a failed model. It caused the head of their unit to tell them to stop DNA research.

Researchers were investigating the wound-healing properties of deoxyribose, a sugar critical in the structure of DNA. While applying ... hair loss—a common model for male-pattern baldness ...