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Two separate groups of biologists reported fusing entire sets of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes together, and surprisingly, the actual number of chromosomes might not be as important as we ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

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PacBio launched CiFi, a method combining 3C and HiFi long-read sequencing to generate chromosome scale, haplotype resolved genome assemblies in one run.

This biography of the 1962 Nobel Prize-winning scientist reveals a mighty intellect who loved the arts as much as science.

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