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August 2021
Vazquez featured in BBC's CrowdScience podcast
On the CrowdScience blog maintained by BBC News World Service, a recent post titled "Why do my cables keep getting tangled" featured Mariel Vazquez. Hear her explain torsion and coiling in DNA, how it wraps around proteins called histones, how this affects replication in bacteria, and how Nature and modern medicine overcome harmful knotting.