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Chromosomes look different than you think – Phys.org
In high school textbooks, human chromosomes are pictured as wonky Xs like two hotdogs jammed together. But those images are far from accurate. “For 90 percent of…
In high school textbooks, human chromosomes are pictured as wonky Xs like two hotdogs jammed together. But those images are far from accurate. “For 90 percent of the time,” said Jun-Han Su, “chromosomes don’t exist like that.”
Last year, before Su graduated with his Ph.D., he and three current Ph.D. candidates in the Graduate School of Arts and SciencesPu Zheng, Seon Kinrot and Bogdan Bintucaptured high-resolution 3-D images of human chromosomes, the complex houses for our DNA. Now, those images…
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