Visualizing tightly packed DNA

Multimedia · 17 November 2016

OSTI ID:1673603

This computerized animation of shows the skeletonized structure of heterochromatin, a tightly packed form of DNA, in a mouse’s mature olfactory neuron. Red denotes a small minimum distance, or thin region, of a branch of the heterochromatic structure, and white denotes a large minimum distance, or thick region, of a branch of the heterochromatin. (Credit: Berkeley Lab, UCSF)

• Research Organization: LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States))
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• OSTI ID: 1673603
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
DNA
HETEROCHROMATIC STRUCTURE
OLFACTORY NEURON