First 'Telomere to Telomere' Human Genome Reveals Secrets of the Centromere - Berkeley Lab - Lawrence Berkeley Lab (.gov)

Adapted from a news release by Robert Sanders When scientists announced the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003, they were fudging a bit. In fact, nearly 20 years later, about 8% of the genome has never been fully sequenced, largely because it consi…

A chromosome (blue) imaged during cell replication. The chromosome is duplicated, and protein strands called spindle fibers (red) are attached to the chromosome copies to pull them apart, so that eac… [+3474 chars]

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