3-d maps of folded genome: Catalog of 10,000 loops reveals new form of genetic regulation
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
In a triumph for cell biology, researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene regulation -- a kind of "genomic origami" that allows the same genome to produce different types of cells.