# Pulling the strings: How stem cells in the developing fruit fly brain organize their DNA from outside the nucleus

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- Published: 2026-10-30T16:40:05+00:00
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- Original: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-stem-cells-fruit-fly-brain.html
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Cells are very particular about the proper locations of their contents. For example, DNA is packaged in the nucleus in a highly specific way, but researchers are still trying to understand how this happens. For stem cells in the brain of a larval fruit fly—a model organism used to study processes such as early development—the DNA is organized so that the center of each strand, called the centromer

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