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eShirl

(18,491 posts) Mon Dec 15, 2014, 04:07 AM Dec 2014

3-D maps of folded genome: Catalog of 10,000 loops reveals new form of genetic regulation

In a triumph for cell biology, researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3-D 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.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141211124419.htm