Visualizing chromatin communication in living cells through Oligo-LiveFISH

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Naples, Italy. Electronic address: mattia.conte@na.infn.it.
  • 2Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Naples, Italy. Electronic address: mario.nicodemi@na.infn.it.

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Abstract

Understanding genome regulation requires capturing chromatin dynamics in real time. In a recent issue of Cell, Zhu et al. introduce Oligo-LiveFISH,1 a high-resolution live-cell imaging platform that tracks non-repetitive loci without genome engineering. By assembling fluorescent guide RNA pools with dCas9, this method enables 20-nm, 50-ms resolution imaging, offering insights into dynamic genome organization across cell lines and primary cells.