New Approach to Liquid Biopsies (IMAGE)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

New Approach to Liquid Biopsies

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Along its length DNA loops around structures called nucleosomes (in gray) and is bound by proteins. When cells die, enzymes (represented by scissors) chop up the DNA by targeting the easily accessible areas between nucleosomes and proteins. The resulting DNA segments reveal where the nucleosomes and proteins were located.

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Shendure Lab/University of Washington

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