[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 19, 2020 Scientists from Utah have discovered new functions of a key cellular machine that regulates the packaging of genes and is mutated in 20% of human cancers. The study was published today in print in the journal Molecular cell. Genes are segments of …
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[ad_1] If you’ve ever studied chemistry or biology, there’s a very good chance you’ve come across the common pictorial representation of what a chromosome should look like. As millions of high school and college students attest, it is a tall, narrow X shape, displaying the appearance of two chromatids joined …
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[ad_1] UW Medicine researchers at Seattle’s Brotman Baty Institute have created two cell atlases that track gene expression and chromatin accessibility during the development of human cell types and tissues. An atlas maps gene expression within single cells in 15 fetal tissues. The second atlas maps the chromatin accessibility of …
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