ICFO/CRG Video Abstract (VIDEO)
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A study using super-resolution microscopy reveals that our genome is not regularly packaged and links these packaging differences to stem cell state. A multidisciplinary approach allowed scientists to view and even count, for the first time, the smallest units for packaging our genome.
A joint patent has been filed by ICFO and CRG, who are now exploring business opportunities for marketing the classification and determination of the degree of pluripotency of stem cells before their use in cell therapy or research in biomedicine.
The work, published in Cell, is a successful example of the importance on having multidisciplinary projects and collaborations. This study has brought together biologists and physicists from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), both in Barcelona, Spain.
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