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What the World’s Smallest Tweezers Tell Us About DNA

DNA isn’t the simple, loose double-helix you might see in a biology textbook, so isolating single strands of it can be next to impossible. But with some simple tricks of physics, scientists came up with a special type of tweezers that can unzip DNA!