Harvard Medical School: DNA in Detail
July 28, 2020
July 28, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 28 -- Harvard Medical School issued the following news:
The intricate, tightly wound structures of chromosomes condense about two meters of DNA so the complete instruction manual for growing a human can be tucked inside a cell nucleus just 10 microns wide.
"This is like fitting something the height of the Empire State Building into a space no wider than a spaghetti noodle," said Huy Quoc Nguyen, research fellow in genetics at Harvar . . .
The intricate, tightly wound structures of chromosomes condense about two meters of DNA so the complete instruction manual for growing a human can be tucked inside a cell nucleus just 10 microns wide.
"This is like fitting something the height of the Empire State Building into a space no wider than a spaghetti noodle," said Huy Quoc Nguyen, research fellow in genetics at Harvar . . .