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Scientists Find DNA is Packaged Like a Yoyo

March 16, 2015

To pack two meters of DNA into a microscopic cell, the string of genetic information must be wound extremely carefully into chromosomes. Surprisingly the DNA’s sequence causes it to be coiled and uncoiled much like a yoyo, scientists reported in Cell.


March 16, 2015


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