A Dance of Histones Silences Transposable Elements in Pluripotent Stem Cells (IMAGE)

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A Dance of Histones Silences Transposable Elements in Pluripotent Stem Cells

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The mechanism of a peculiar type of heterochromatin, used by embryonic stem cells to silence 'parasitic' DNA-elements within the context of their highly dynamic pluripotent chromatin.

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Simon Elsässer

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