A new article analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study demonstrates that the multilaminar ...
What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...
The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...
Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter have discovered a new ...
Mitochondria release segments of mitochondrial DNA that can travel through pores of the nucleus and integrate into a cell's chromosomes (where the insertions are called NUMTs, for nuclear ...
Frogs have made significant contributions to Fred Hutch science over the years as a model organism that shares much of our ...
MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...
Scientists have used human skin cells to produce functional eggs using a new scientific technique they say could one day help ...
Reporting in Nature, scientists have identified a novel process that protects the ends of chromosomes from incorrectly applied DNA repair. Although DNA repair is a crucial mechanism that can protect a ...