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Ruler of life

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The unit length of DNA is a base pair, which serves as a ruler for DNA compaction and processing, as Michelle Wang explains.

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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  2. Department of Physics, and Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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Wang, M.D. Ruler of life. Nat. Phys. 17, 976 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01300-5

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