In a study led by Professor Daniel Panne and Dr Benjamin Rowland, it has been discovered that the X chromosome gets its shape from shugosin "locking" the chromosomes into X shapes, solving one of life's greatest mysteries.
Scientists in Britain have finally solved one of the greatest mysteries of life: how chromosomes get their X shape. Chromosomes, discovered in the late 1800s, are DNA molecules which contain the genetic material of an organism.
All chromosomes, without exception, e...
