{"id":721341,"date":"2022-04-14T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721341"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:00:03","slug":"study-finds-genome-loops-dont-last-long-in-cells-theories-of-how-loops-control-gene-expression-may-need-to-be-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721341","title":{"rendered":"Study finds genome loops don&#039;t last long in cells: Theories of how loops control gene expression may need to be revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In human chromosomes, DNA is coated by proteins to form an exceedingly long beaded string. This &#8220;string&#8221; is folded into numerous loops, which are believed to help cells control gene expression and facilitate DNA repair, among other functions. A new study from MIT suggests that these loops are very dynamic and shorter-lived than previously thought.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-genome-loops-dont-cells-theories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Study finds genome loops don&#8217;t last long in cells: Theories of how loops control gene expression may need to be revised<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In human chromosomes, DNA is coated by proteins to form an exceedingly long beaded string. This &#8220;string&#8221; is folded into numerous loops, which are believed to help cells control gene&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}