Combining Chromosomes in Steps (IMAGE)

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Combining Chromosomes in Steps

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A newly constructed yeast strain grew, but could no longer interbreed with normal yeast, when researchers in steps fused the 16 naturally occurring chromosomes that house its DNA into two massive ones.

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NYU School of Medicine

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