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This week in Science, Michael K. Rosen and 10 other members of a large collaboration at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Chromatin Consortium, propose a long-awaited model for how the properties ...

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Ultrastructure expansion microscopy of murine male germ cells reveals the fine molecular structures of centrioles (shown in the enlarged image). DNA is stained in blue, and the chromosome axis in red.