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In the article "Solving knotty problems in math and biology"by Gina Kolata (Research News, 28 Mar., p. 1506), the affiliationof Morwen Thistlethwaite, mentioned in the legend of the secondfigure on page 1507, should have been Polytechnic of the SouthBank in London.