The main feature of this website, the ASDT model of DNA is inspired and supported by the
astounding and groundbreaking work of Prof V Sasisekharan (Sasi) and his team from 1975-
1984. They are the only researchers ever to have done fine detailed lab analysis of the
component elements of the DNA molecule. At the time Sasi was one of the few people
qualified to do this work and despite producing critically important results which point to
DNA not being a double helix their work has been ignored despite never having been repeated
and either confirmed or refuted scientifically.
Sasi’s team produced their own model, the side by side model of DNA (SBS). Their work, their papers and their conclusions are showcased on the sister website www.sidebysidedna.com and links to that site are included throughout this site.
What you will find on this site:
1) Links to the sister site www.sidebysidedna.com launched in summer 2020.
2) Discussion of the importance of Sasi’s work and why it has been ignored. (No, this is not a conspiracy website. It’s way more interesting and more human than that.)
3) Discussion of how an anthropologist extrapolated from Sasi’s work to ASDT DNA – above.
4) The author’s original 1981 summary/critique of Sasi’s work: Click Here
5) A letter from Sasi to the author from Feb 1982: Click Here
6) A description of typical DNA extraction procedure: Click Here
7) The opening 3 chapters of a conspiracy style novel ‘A Singing Dancing Thing’ written by the author to try and tell the story: Click Here. Please fill in the ‘Read more of novel’ option on the Contact Us form if you’d like to read the rest.
8) And for those of you who can’t be bothered with a novel – a short story ‘Being Misunderstood’: Click Here
9) A recent history of connections between the author and Sean Kettle who also launched his own website www.dna.place in summer 2020 showcasing the work of other researchers who have researched and proposed alternative DNA models.
10) A new synthesis which suggests a bio evolutionary coherence across all these models. This synthesis points to the future and suggests research programmes that could bring a huge new realm of understanding to this field while spawning other important new departures in its wake.
So yes, it’s a multi pronged, multi media effort to get this amazing molecule reimagined and
to get science to be made to work properly.
The really brief outline
April 1953 The Watson Crick Double helix (W-C), a beautiful right handed spiral stuns the world.
1976-81 Sasi does the only comprehensive work before or since to examine the component elements of the molecule in fine detail showing right and left base stacking. He produces the side by side model (SBS), an alternating 5 base pairs right, 5 base pairs left structure. This SBS solves a lot of the central problems with W-C.
1981 The author writes a summary of Sasi’s work and adds a critique which suggests an improved dynamic model, recently named the ASDT. ASDT offers an explanation for DNA’s evolution.
2020 The author launches www.sidebysidedna.com website to showcase Sasi’s work. This leads to conversation with a very eminent former member of Sasi’s team, Samir Brahmachari https://www.linkedin.com/in/samir-k-brahmachari-9782b1105/ Samir says that author’s 40 year old ASDT model is not just a logical progression of Sasi’s work but a major departure worthy of being researched in its own right. The author is stunned.
2021 Sean Kettle whose own DNA website, www.dna.place was also launched in 2020 contacts author.
2022 After digesting the work on Sean’s site and conceptualising the synthesis the author decides to launch this new website.