miércoles, 5 de junio de 2019

New post from NIGMS Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.​
The Latest Biomedical Beat Post
Melissa Wilson wearing a floral dress and speaking during her lecture.

Computational Biologist Melissa Wilson on Sex Chromosomes, Gila Monsters, and Career Advice

The differences—and similarities—of X and Y chromosomes was the focus of the 2019 NIGMS Director’s Early-Career Investigator Lecture with computational biologist Melissa Wilson. The NIH audience also included undergraduate students from four local schools who asked questions about Wilson’s research at Arizona State University, her career path, and her work with Gila monsters.
In Case You Missed It
A blue X and Y chromosome against a black background that includes a blue hazy outline of a DNA double helix.

Chromosomally speaking, what do you know about sex? Take a quiz to find out. 

Which health conditions are sex-linked and which aren't? Why is the human X chromosome so much larger than the Y chromosome? How many people have the genotype XXY? Or XYY?
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