Friday beautiful science
Today's image is of an M-FISH experiment, (also called "chromosome painting") taken from here. I've been wanting to show a photo of this technique for several weeks, but it's taken me a while to find one that was of sufficient quality. This is a technique where the DNA from each chromosome is "stained" with a particular color, so that each chromosome is readily identified. In this particular image, you can see multiple colors on some of the chromosomes, indicating that these are fusions of multiple chromosomes. This is likely a chromosome spread from a tumor cell.
4 comments:
oooooo, ahhhhhh. a beautiful image.
Okay, when my paper gets published, my pics SO better be the topic of a 'Friday Beautiful Science'. Glowing stuff, factician, glowing stuff!!
:P
Yep, I confess I have a soft spot in my heart for GFP (and other fluorescent techniques). Not because fluorescent molecules are very useful reagents (they are) but because I think fluorescence looks cool. I feel the same way about dry ice. What can I say, I'm a geek.
GFP rocks...
But dsRED2 is a different story all together... hate it... haaate it...
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