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 ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA—its genome—and segregate it equally ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

"Our work is the first to directly test how chromosome structure affects bacterial growth ... Since the 1980s, scientists have harnessed its infection-causing DNA transfer mechanism to insert ...