"tightly condensed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to something that has been made shorter by removing some details but still conveys the essence of the original content. For example, "The summary of the essay was tightly condensed, but it accurately represented the main points of the paper."
Base formations are tightly condensed, not spread out.
The first couple of chapters in particular feel tightly condensed, as if she were hurrying to set the stage before raising the curtain on the novel proper.
He molded the rice with his bare hands into a tightly condensed and perfectly shaped rectangle.
Similar to colchicine treatment, MI-181 treatment arrested cells in mitosis with p-H3-positive staining and unaligned tightly condensed chromosomes.
Methylated DNA is also recognized by a family of methylated DNA-binding proteins, which recruit histone deacetylases and ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling proteins, resulting in a tightly condensed chromatin structure and gene inactivation.
Although administration of 10 μΜ 17-AAG was not able to abrogate T24 proliferation and motility responses, it is clear that the scratch-wound "healing" mechanism in these cells has been significantly impaired due to the effect of the drug, since cells appeared to maintain the gap without being tightly condensed as initially observed under control conditions.
In gene therapy, the designed cationic peptides must be able to 1) tightly condense DNA into small, compact particles; 2) target the condensate to specific cell surface receptors; 3) induce endosomal escape; and 4) target the DNA cargo to the nucleus for gene expression.
The pattern of "methylation" in a region of the chromatin influences how tightly it is condensed.
Heterochromatin is highly condensed, forming tightly packaged chromatin.
Initial microscopic observations indicated that mitotic chromosomes are composed of thick rods made up of tightly but irregularly folded fibers that can subsequently coil to form thicker condensed chromatids [ 117].
