There’s a Mystery Machine That Sculpts the Human Genome
Geneticists can’t see this machine, but they can see its works—and they say it might be the key to reshaping the genome. Genomes are so regularly represented as strings of letters—As, Gs, Cs, and Ts—that it’s easy to forget that they aren’t just abstract collections of data. They exist in three …
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