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The human genome can be thought of as a massive library, containing over 20,000 different "instruction manuals": your genes. For example, there are genes

The human genome can be thought of as a massive library, containing over 20,000 different “instruction manuals”: your genes. For example, there are

January 31, 2021Caltech Nestled deep in the nucleus of each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Like a long, thin string of genetic spaghetti, this DNA blueprint for your whole body is folded and compacted into structures called chromosomes in order to fit within this space. Also packed into the nucleus are structures called nuclear bodies, which are proteins that act like cellular machine...