Biological Freudianism: Long-lasting Effects on Environmental Factors Through Influences on the Epigenome - Wolfgang Fischle, Ma from rope ma Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 17 min 79 sec
✓ Published: 24-Oct-2011

Description:
More Than a Scaffold – Deciphering How Packaging of the Genome Controls Its ReadoutnWolfgang Fischle, Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, GermanynnEveryone is familiar with the structural image of DNA: The carrier of hereditary information looks like a rope ladder that has been twisted to form a double helix. In living cells it is stored in the cell nucleus, the “command centre” of the cell. However, the very long DNA molecules do not occur there in isolation. In con