Measuring The Strength Needed To Move Chromosomes
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 02:42
in Biology & Nature
It's about as long as the width of a human hair and only half that length across. So it's tiny -- measured in millionths of a meter -- and extremely tricky to manipulate. But the meiotic spindle plays so irresistibly important a role in separating our chromosomes during cell division that scientists are compelled to try to study it.