A dance of histones silences transposable elements in pluripotent stem cells

(Science For Life Laboratory) A study lead by SciLifeLab Fellow Simon Els ä sser elucidates 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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