A
case study on CML from the nice people at Lablogatory. I was particularly
intrigued by the lab reports on chromosomal abnormalities. This is a field
which has brown beyond recognition. When I was a lad I can remember we would
send blood samples to a chap in a hospital lab not that far from home (which
has long since been bulldozed).
This
fellow would culture the cells, take photos, cut them up and look for the Philadelphia
chromosome.
He
was no cytogeneticist; his expertise came from having been photographing orchid
chromosomes as a hobby (for a reason that eludes me at the moment).
How times have changed.
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