{"id":225796,"date":"2025-11-24T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/in-a-surprising-discovery-scientists-find-tiny-loops-in-the-genomes-of-dividing-cells"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:02:35","slug":"in-a-surprising-discovery-scientists-find-tiny-loops-in-the-genomes-of-dividing-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/in-a-surprising-discovery-scientists-find-tiny-loops-in-the-genomes-of-dividing-cells","title":{"rendered":"In a surprising discovery, scientists find tiny loops in the genomes of dividing cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-surprising-discovery-scientists-find-tiny-loops-in-the-genomes-of-dividing-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a surprising discovery, MIT scientists found tiny loops in the genomes of dividing cells. Enabled by a high-resolution mapping technique, the findings overturn a long-held belief that the genome loses its 3D structure during mitosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising discovery, MIT scientists found tiny loops in the genomes of dividing cells. Enabled by a high-resolution mapping technique, the findings overturn a long-held belief that the genome loses its 3D structure during mitosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}