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medical illustration of One illustration from a series created for an online course “The Immune System” for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Next medical illustration of The trick to fitting 2 meters of DNA into a 0.000006 meter wide nucleus *and* keeping it organized? Loops. Lots of loops. This 1.5 page spread for Scientific American illustrates the relationship of DNA to chromatin, the density of chromatin packing in the nucleus, and schematically show how chromatin loops are formed that both prevent entanglement and allow for gene regulation.

The Loopy Genome

One illustration from a series created for an online course “The Immune System” for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

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