Beyond A, C, T, and G lies an epigenetic level of heritable control that has reached the forefront of biomedical research. Histone modification patterns, like multicolored highlighting in the genome's book of life, tell eukaryotic cells when to turn genes on and off, thus making sense of its DNA instructions. In 1993, researchers first pondered whether these alterations on N-terminal tails of...
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