Saturday, August 22, 2020

THE MYSTERY OF DNA PACKING



Have you ever lain in bed at night, unable to sleep because your brain insisted on wrestling with the eternal, vital  question, to wit “How can you stuff a human DNA molecule that is six feet long into the nucleus of a single cell”?  Probably not too often.  Well, Dr. Collins gives you a colorful hint, here:


Of course, now you have to cope with the equally important conundrum:   how in hell does the copying mechanism find the right spot to do its job, in all that knotted-up, colorful mess?

There’s lots we don’t know – and, I suspect, lots we will never know.

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