When experiments seem to imply that the stiffness of DNA depends on its length, what's really going on?
Elasticity of short DNA molecules: Theory and experiment for contour lengths of 0.6--7 um. With Seol, Li, Perkins, and Betterton. Biophys. J. 93 4360 (2007).

How accurately can we infer the length of a long molecule from the motion of a bead on its end?
Colloidal Particle Motion as a Diagnostic of DNA Conformational Transitions. Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science 12 307 (2007).

Are there long-lived kinetic substates in DNA looping?
Diffusive hidden Markov model characterization of DNA looping dynamics in tethered particle experiments . With Beausang. Physical Biology 4 205 (2007).

How can you extract kinetics from noisy data without binning?
DNA looping kinetics analyzed using diffusive hidden Markov model . With Beausang, Zurla, Manzo, Dunlap, and Finzi. Biophys. J. 92, L64 (2007).

Are there hidden regularities in "random" Brownian motion?
Elementary simulation of tethered Brownian motion. With Beausang, Zurla, Sullivan, and Finzi. Am. J. Phys. 75, 520 (2007).

What energy source squirts viral DNA into a host cell?
Biological Consequences of Tightly Bent DNA: The Other Life of a Macromolecular Celebrity . With Garcia, Grayson, Han, Inamdar, Kondev, Phillips, Widom, and Wiggins. Biopolymers 85, 115 (2007).

If DNA is a stiff elastic rod, how can it form those tight regulatory loops?
High flexibility of DNA on short length scales probed by atomic force microscopy. With Wiggins, van der Heijden, Moreno-Herrero, Spakowitz, Phillips, Widom, and Dekker.Nature Nanotechnology 1, 137 (2006) A commentary appears here.
See the Erratum to this article.

Do cells transport vesicles using active conveyor belts?
Hitchhiking Through the Cytoplasm. With Kulic. Europhys. Lett. 81, 18001-(1--6) (2008).

How can you see protein binding in real time?
Entropic elasticity of DNA with a permanent kink. With Betterton and Li. Macromolecules 39 8816 (2006).

When you twist a string, how does that affect loop formation?
Effect of supercoiling on formation of protein mediated DNA loops. With Purohit. Phys. Rev. E74, art. no. 061907 (14 pages) (2006).
See the Erratum to this article.

How can you detect DNA looping in real time, when you can't even see DNA?
Tethered particle motion as a diagnostic of DNA tether length. With Zurla, Brogioli, Beausang, Finzi, and Dunlap. Journal of Physical Chemistry B110, 17260 (2006).

How can fluorescence tell us about molecular mechanics?
Generalized theory of semiflexible polymers. With Wiggins. Phys. Rev. E73, art. number 031906 (2006).

What can a balloon in a hurricane tell us about gene regulation?
Excluded-Volume Effects in Tethered-Particle Experiments: Bead Size Matters. With Segall and Phillips. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 art. number 088306 (2006).

How does DNA spontaneously form gene regulatory complexes with "impossibly" tight loops?
Exact theory of kinkable elastic polymers . With Wiggins and Phillips. Phys. Rev. E71 art. number 021909 (2005).

Is single-stranded DNA really a freely jointed chain?
Theory of High-Force DNA Stretching and Overstretching. With Storm. Phys. Rev. E67 (2003) art. number 051906 (Erratum ibid. 70, 013902 (2004)).

What's going on when DNA stretches to 1.6 times its "maximum" length?
The bend stiffness of S-DNA. With Storm. Europhys. Lett. 62 (2003) 760.