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A fully extended strand of human DNA measures about five feet in length. Yet it occupies a space just one-tenth of a cell by wrapping itself around histones -- spool-like proteins -- to form a dense hub of information called chromatin. Researchers at Princeton University have developed a facile method to introduce non-native chromatin into cells to interrogate nature's remarkable information indexing system.

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