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Fitting In

By Virginia Hughes | February 24, 2012 | 8 Comments

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The new study, certainly not the last word on DNA, was published last week in The EMBO Journal. The music is Chopin’s Minute Waltz, the subject of another post.

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8 Responses to “Fitting In”

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    February 24th, 2012 @ 4:50 pm

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    February 24th, 2012 @ 11:47 pm

    [...] small? Yet today, actually, one of the regulars there, Virginia Hughes, thinks really small, with a short video that illustrates how DNA manages to pack its immensely long self into the teeny confines of a cell [...]

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    February 25th, 2012 @ 7:25 am

    [...] Ginny channeled Joan Miro to explain, in beautiful surrealist anime, how fantastic lengths of DNA manage to coil themselves into an impossibly tiny [...]

  5. Thomas Hayden
    February 26th, 2012 @ 1:45 am

    Ginny, this is stone cold awesome, only less cliched than that term of praise!

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  7. skeptico
    February 28th, 2012 @ 8:58 pm

    great job. if all science were presented graphically this well, there would be no creationists!

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