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The Plusses and Minuses of DNA Torsion

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Journal Elife
Specialty Biology
Date 2025 Mar 3
PMID 40028765
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Abstract

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

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