The team of researchers from the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney called this new shape i-motif. The DNA loop typically appeared as a four-stranded knot. In earlier studies, DNA has been described as triple helices and cruciform in shape, but this is the first time that this special i-motif structure has been noted. Researchers are still trying to understand the role of this new structure within humans.