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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

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Dr. Filipe Tavares-Cadete, a post-doctoral researcher at OIST demonstrates how DNA looping inside the nucleus brings segments close together that otherwise appear far apart in the linear sequence. Tavares-Cadete and his collaborators investigated interactions involving promoters and how they might influence diseases.

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