A colleague just pointed me to The Human Genre Project, a growing collection of short writing (poems, short stories) assembled into the set of human chromosomes
The quality is uneven, but some are genuinely moving, some are cute, and others convey the challenges and uncertainties of our genetic future.
For the literarily inclined: I note that chromosome 22 is yet to find an occupant, and anyone can contribute.
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Sex chromosomes are cool. Because they're cool, I've written about them before. It's cool to trace the origins of sex chromosomes. It's cool to study how they evolve.
A few weeks ago PNAS published a paper on the evolution of snake sex chromosomes. The authors compare snake sex chromosome evolution with that of mammals and birds.
Our genes are arrayed along 23 pairs of chromosomes. On rare occasion, a mutation can change their order. If we picture the genes on a chromosome as
A few months ago I wrote the following: