Physics World has published a quiz of the week asking readers what happens to the structure and dynamics of the human genome under microgravity conditions. The puzzle invites readers to consider how the absence of gravity might influence the way DNA is organized and how its components move inside the cell nucleus.
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The question belongs to a wider area of research in which physicists and biologists examine how spaceflight conditions affect living cells. Reduced gravity is one of the factors that crews on orbiting laboratories experience, and the question of whether it affects genetic material is a natural subject for a physics-oriented quiz. The item does not, however, link itself to any particular mission, experiment or result, and it should not be read as a summary of such work.
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