Markita Landry, a half-Bolivian, half-French Canadian physics Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, … used a tango to convey her thesis, “Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes.” She is trying to understand how a protein called TelK bends DNA into hairpin loops. The mechanism makes for beautiful dance, with Landry bending like pliable DNA in her partner’s arms.
Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes
Posted by Greg Laden on November 29, 2008
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Such style! Such movement! Such class!
This intelligent, beautiful lass
Ought to win Nobel’s prize
For the grace of her thighs!
(The MacArthur Award, for her ass!)
November 29, 2008
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