Some scientists really throw themselves into their research, but Stanford University biophysicist Stephen Quake has taken the all-in approach to a whole new level.
Using his sperm, Quake and colleagues compiled the first-ever genetic blueprint for a single sperm cell. The results shed new light on molecular processes such as mutation and recombination in humans, Quake and his colleagues report in the July 20 Cell.
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