Authors Jesse Dixon and Tessa Popay (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Authors Jesse Dixon and Tessa Popay

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Tessa Popay, PhD, (left) and Jesse Dixon, MD, PhD, (right) discovered that the genome’s dynamic movement influences the expression of genes and seems to be especially important in reinforcing cell identity. 

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