This was then put into a vortex fluid device, where the tangled proteins were spun and gently pulled apart until they refolded into their proper structure.
The truth is more tangled and doesn't fit complacently established cultural patterns.
The rooks roar angrily over my head as I wander through the small, tangled wood.
Friday's Mail and Telegraph claimed to have uncovered the secrets of Red Ed's "tangled love life".
But EU policymakers face a tangled knot of "push factors" – war, economic crisis, political repression and environmental degradation.
The sorry tale of Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, the speeding points and the jail sentences was a perfect illustration of the old adage: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we leave our wives for a bisexual press strategist".
And perhaps the finding and matching of objects mimics tasks our brains are good at, but don't get to do very much any more, like searching for ripe fruit in tangled thickets, or picking stones out of dried lentils.
The roots of my thinking are a tangled maze of myths, folktales, legends, fairy stories.
The tangled web: as we become creatures of the smartphone, the tablet and the app, and as services, sites and accounts become ever more interconnected, remember that if one is breached others become unsafe.
Partly they lie in a tangled web of political changes, including the collapse of the left and the rise of identity politics.
Well, of course it's an Irish problem: the Irish inherited from the tangled history of our archipelago a deep identification of Irishness with Catholicism, and of Britishness with Protestantism.
