Self-blinking 'fairy lights' allow DNA to be imaged at almost double-helix-width resolution

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Researchers have developed fluorescent molecules that permit imaging of how DNA is packaged inside living cells at unprecedented resolution and, in preserved cells, at a resolution close to the width of the double helix itself.

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French ruling spotlights breast cancer as an occupational disease

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