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immortal cells

2000-11-28 02:16:17+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Well, I've always thought of it as the "staff of life": Lynne Allen-Hoffman of the University of Wisconsin is growing immortal foreskin cells. (I expect that the archive version will end up here). The answer, the researchers found, rested in a single strand of one chromosome. Chromosomes are the tiny strands of genetic material that contain the DNA that determines the characteristics of the entire cell, and chromosome 8 had a duplicate string of DNA.

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