In a landmark event more than a decade ago, geneticists unveiled the human genetic instruction book. This year, the book was turned into a movie adaptation in 3-D: Researchers cataloged how chemical modifications fold, compress and unwind the static DNA over time and how those modifications control when genes are on or off.
The crew of researchers involved in the Roadmap Epigenomics Project premiered their findings in more than 20 scientific papers published in February (SN: 3/21/15, p. 6).