Split Cell (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Split Cell

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Blotchy black regions of a wild type nucleus (left), which has normal amounts of the trimethyl-based chromatin compaction (denoted by black spots). Nucleus deficient in the enzymes (right), in which black blotchy parts indicative of highly compacted chromosomal regions are absent.

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Dario Nicetto, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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