Pax7 /newsroom/taxonomy/term/10109/all en Discovery of a 'pioneer' that opens the genome /newsroom/channels/news/discovery-pioneer-opens-genome-284089 <p>Our genome contains all the information necessary to form a complete human being. This information, encoded in our DNA, stretches over one to two metres long but still manages to squeeze into a cell about 100 times smaller than a green pea. To do so, the genome has to be compacted.</p> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:26:28 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 32885 at /newsroom