Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found that DNA packs more easily into the tight confines of a virus when given a chance to relax, they report in a pair of papers to be ...
Researchers developed fluorescent dyes that reveal DNA packing in living cells and could help scientists study changes linked to cancer.
When does DNA behave like sand or toothpaste? When the genetic material is so densely packed within a virus, it can behave like grains of sand or toothpaste in a tube. That's essentially what ...