Combing Chromosomes
By John Herrick, Aaron Bensimon
Extending DNA and labeling specific sequences pinpoints chromosomal features and unravels natural and disease processes
This Article From Issue
May-June 2001
Volume 89, Number 3
Page 236
DOI: 10.1511/2001.22.236
Beneath the surface of a stream, the hair on a swimmer's head floats freely, sometimes in turbulent tangles. But as the swimmer emerges above the surface, her hair is perfectly arranged against her head, each strand guided into place by the combined pull of the water's surface and gravity.
Illustration by Tom Dunne. Micrograph courtesy of Ross B. Inman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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