How to Use chromatin in a Sentence

chromatin

noun
  • The chromatin further loops and twists, to form our chromosomes.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Some parts of chromatin are densely packed into a form called heterochromatin.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • In any event, no one thinks that chromatin looping was the only thing that enabled the rise of complex animals.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Chromatin loops are just one reason why a gene’s transcription depends on the shape and structure of the chromatin around it.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • But any time a cell is not actively dividing, its chromatin is unwound into what looks like a tangled mess.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • These behave like oil droplets in water, a process known as phase separation, and could mimic how chromatin compacts inside cells.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
  • By combining this imaging with simulations and light microscopy, the team mapped how chromatin fibers interact and form droplet networks.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
  • There are ways to put distal parts of the chromosome in proximity — if the enhancer can be pulled out of the mass of chromatin and brought close to the promoter and gene on a loop.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Those strings fold into chromatin fibers and ultimately into the dense architecture of the nucleus.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But loops don’t just form via some random fluctuation in chromatin shape; their creation is orchestrated and requires energy.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The result is a genome-wide map of chromatin proximity, which encodes the three-dimensional organization of the genome.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The method involves chemically linking close chromatin regions, and then chopping up the chromatin and observing which sequences in the fragments are bound together.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The team used a technique introduced 10 years ago called Micro-C to reveal which parts of the chromatin are brought physically close to one another.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • It’s not yet known quite how cnidarians and ctenophores create chromatin loops to add this extra layer of regulatory complexity to cell-type-specific gene regulation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • These structural features help explain why some chromatin types phase-separate more readily than others, and why different condensates show different material properties.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The researchers found that cnidarians, ctenophores and placozoans (simple, flat animals with just a few cell types) possess a more complex genome architecture than the unicellular animals do, including chromatin loops that bring promoters and enhancers together.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Many of these features already have their own specialty AI tools—SpliceAI for splice site prediction, ChromBPNet for local chromatin accessibility, Orca for three-dimensional genome architecture.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026

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