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  • Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation

    Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation

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    Kumiko Samejima et al. , Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation.Science388,eadq1709(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adq1709 Editor’s summaryStructural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes, which include cohesin and condensin, play crucial roles in chromatin organization during the interphase and mitosis steps of the cell cycle. Samejima et al. investigated how these complexes interact and guide mitotic…

  • MIT PRIMES

    MIT PRIMES

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    MIT PRIMES is a free, year-long program, in which high school students work on individual and group research projects in mathematics, computer science or bioinformatics and computational biology and participate in reading groups under the guidance of academic mentors, usually graduate students or postdoctoral scholars. The Mirny lab is very proud of our Prime graduates…