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Wired: Turns out crystallized DNA is crazy pretty

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Wired magazine spotlights the dazzling DNA crystal images that Linden Gledhill created for Autism Speaks' MSSNG campaign

Wired magazine spotlights the dazzling DNA crystal images that Linden Gledhill created for Autism Speaks MSSNG campaign

August 18, 2015

This week’s Wired magazine shines a spotlight on the dazzling DNA crystal images that photographer/biochemist Linden Gledhill created for Autism Speaks’ MSSNG project.

MSSNG is sequencing the whole genomes of 10,000 participants in families affected by autism and making this unprecedented wealth of anonymous data freely available for research through the Google Cloud platform.

For the Autism Speaks community, Dr. Gledhill’s images have come to symbolize the unique beauty within every individual affected by autism.

Read the full Wired article, including Dr. Gledhill’s time-lapse videos of DNA crystallization here.

Learn more about MSSNG here. Learn more about MSSNG and crystallized DNA in the video below featuring Dr. Gledhill.


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