Researchers develop "cytological ruler" to build 3D map of human genome
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
It has been almost 20 years since the human genome was first sequenced, but researchers still know little about how the genome is folded up and organized within cells. In a paper to be published August 28 in the Journal of Cell Biology, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign describe a new technique that can measure the position of every single gene in the nucleus to build a 3D picture of the genome's organization.