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To: Ilaine who wrote (70524)	5/6/2010 12:22:03 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Spotting chromosomes in a tree should be right up your son's alley. <My younger son is graduating with a degree in biology in a couple of weeks, > Are you still alive and kicking? [your post was some time ago now and things can change quickly]. But a regular microscope won't be good enough. Chromosomes are small. Such a microscope will need to be down to short-wave light I guess. I forget the details of how they are doing it but it's optical. I happened upon a young man a few days ago who is a physicist working at Auckland University Medical School making such a microscope which is apparently a new invention they are creating. It will be able to see proteins and DNA. So it's obviously not a garden-variety microscope. Maybe your son could go into business spotting chromosomes and deciding who should be playing in female sports and who should be in male sports though apparently it's more complex than that simplistic idea. Mqurice What about now?