'X-shape' not true picture of chromosome structure, new imaging technique reveals

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 18:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

This is the chromosome structure from single-cell Hi-C. A new method for visualising chromosomes is painting a truer picture of their shape, which is rarely like the X-shaped blob of DNA most of us are familiar with.

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