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2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (483+ words) Tiny Ions Help DNA Overcome Repulsion Professor Agnes Noy, from the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York, co-led the research. She said: "This discovery could help researchers identify regions of the genome specially involved in…...