{"id":123664,"date":"2021-06-10T17:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/mass-of-human-chromosomes-measured-for-the-first-time-mysteriously-heavier-than-expected"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:22:39","slug":"mass-of-human-chromosomes-measured-for-the-first-time-mysteriously-heavier-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/mass-of-human-chromosomes-measured-for-the-first-time-mysteriously-heavier-than-expected","title":{"rendered":"Mass of Human Chromosomes Measured for the First Time \u2013 Mysteriously Heavier Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mass-of-human-chromosomes-measured-for-the-first-time-mysteriously-heavier-than-expected2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The mass of human chromosomes, which contain the instructions for life in nearly every cell of our bodies, has been measured with X-rays for the first time in a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the study, published in <i>Chromosome Research<\/i>, researchers used a powerful X-ray beam at the UK\u2019s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, to determine the number of electrons in a spread of 46 chromosomes which they used to calculate mass.<\/p>\n<p>They found that the chromosomes were about 20 times heavier than the DNA they contained \u2013 a much larger mass than previously expected, suggesting there might be missing components yet to be discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mass of human chromosomes, which contain the instructions for life in nearly every cell of our bodies, has been measured with X-rays for the first time in a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. For the study, published in Chromosome Research, researchers used a powerful X-ray beam at the UK\u2019s national [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}