Image
The background image shows individual traces of fluorescently labelled
telomeres, the end parts of chromosomes, in the nucleus of a living
mammalian cell. The blue cloud is an artistic rendering of the volume occupied
by the nucleus of the cell. For more details see the paper by Bronstein et al.,
Phys.
Rev. Lett. 103, 018102 (2009). Figure courtesy
Yuval Garini, Bar-Ilan
University.