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Some past developments and open questions in understanding the biology of nucleus

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Scientific cytology and cytogenetics go back to the Nineteenth century. During the last six decades—since the foundation of The Nucleus—numerous breakthroughs in chromosome technologies enabled considerable progress of chromosome biology. Nevertheless, several biological phenomena—a subjective selection is presented in this article—are still poorly understood and await a deeper investigation in future.

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Schubert, I. Some past developments and open questions in understanding the biology of nucleus. Nucleus 60, 247–249 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13237-017-0217-4

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