This conference brought together leaders in the investigation of various bodies that populate the nucleus, a field that complements research on chromosome biology. These nuclear bodies had been receiving increasing attention as hubs of genome activity and the new findings reported at the conference strongly confirmed and significantly expanded this principle.

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