How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into ... may be highly irregular and not quite the uniform structure depicted in instructive drawings such as Figure ...

The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

Members of the same species usually have DNA similar enough to have the same chromosomes and autosomes (chromosomes that don't code for sex-linked traits). In its structure, DNA contains a pattern ...

The team found that some pancreatic cancer cells gain a major survival edge by carrying copies of critical cancer genes—such ...

The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...

Mammalian genomes are organized by multi-level folding, yet how this organization contributes to cell type-specific transcription remain unclear. We uncovered that the nuclear protein SATB1 ...

Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer.

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this ...