Una visión de la organización cromosómica

Kaite Zhang1,2, Vijay Ramani1,3

  • 1Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 4, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

La tomografía electrónica criogénica proporciona una nueva forma de ver la estructura compleja de la cromatina condensada. Esta avanzada técnica de imagen permite un análisis detallado a través de múltiples escalas.

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