Like most strings and cables, biopolymers—molecular ropes—can tangle and knot. Now Patrick Doyle and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, have demonstrated a technique for untying a biopolymer, in this case DNA, by stretching the strand. The team says that their technique could be used to create knot-free DNA strands for genome mapping, where knots can lead to misreading of genes.
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