Nucleosome (illustration) (IMAGE)

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Nucleosome (illustration)

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Reconstructed image of the basic unit of chromatin, the nucleosome. Nucleosomes link together like beads on a string, connected by stretches of linker DNA. To form a condensate, these strings bind each other to create a large network. Credit: Zhou et al.

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Zhou et al., Science, 2025

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