New Study Reveals DNA Organization in the Nucleus; Plus Highly Recommended Video

OK, this is really cool. We knew the nucleus had to be organized into compartments with particular chromosomes taking up particular regions. Now, using an elegant new technique, Rao et al. in a collaboration between the Center for Genome Architecture at Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University in Houston, Texas, and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have mapped which bits of DNA are close to each other, or nearest neighbors in the nucleus. The research, reported on in The S...