bushrawr33:

lasben:

Behold the purest form of your existence: your complete genetic makeup.  Karyotyping, the painstaking process of lysing a cell in metaphase and differentiating the chromosomes (seen above), is both beautiful and a helpful diagnostic tool for many diseases.  Fluorescent stains are sometimes used to highlight different genes, as shown on the male karyotype.  Some conditions, such as chronic mylogenous leukemia (CML), involve visible translocations as seen in picture 3; the arrows indicate where part of chromosome 22 has attached to chromosome 9, encoding a defective gene (BCR-ABL) and causing the gamut of problems that is CML.  

AH. so cool.

why my blog is called “We the Helices” gettit? :)

seriously doh. in 23 pairs and out comes YOU. nothing more, nothing less and no one else. we are alpha helices of proteins, and double helices of deoxyriboses. star stuff is our genesis, and it got struck by the chance happenings of organic chemistry. what more can make us humans? right?