More information: Parth Rakesh Desai et al, Molecular Crowding Suppresses Mechanical Stress-Driven DNA Strand Separation, Biophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2025.04.024 ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation - the essential process a "resting" double helix ...