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Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes

Category: Genetics
Posted on: November 29, 2008 1:30 PM, by Greg Laden

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.

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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!)

Posted by: Cuttlefish | November 29, 2008 4:58 PM

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