Researchers find that chromatin's complexity can be reduced into a unifying model of gene regulation
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers made up of members from the California Institute of Technology, Tottori University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has conducted a study that has led to finding that that the material of which chromosomes are composed (chromatin) can be reduced to a unifying model of gene regulation. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes their approach and why they believe it may lead to a better understanding of the way the expression of the genome is controlled. Albert Keung and Ahmad Khalil with North Carolina State University and Boston University respectively, offer a Perspective piece on the work done by the team in the same journal edition and offer some insight into the direction such work appears to be heading in the near future.