Therefore, chromatin is further coiled into an ... the packing ratio of DNA in metaphase chromosomes is approximately 10,000:1 (depending on the chromosome). This can be thought of as akin to ...

Zhang and his colleagues designed a generative AI model called ChromoGen to quickly ‘read’ DNA sequences and predict the ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

Each cell of the human body contains two meters of DNA. The whole secret lies in the intricate three-dimensional arrangement that allows DNA strands to be efficiently organized and compacted within ...

Worldwide, hepatitis B is thought to be the second deadliest infection; about 5% of the global population are infection and ...

The parasite that causes malaria requires precise control of gene expression to progress through the various stages of its ...

"We were delighted to discover not only important details about the mechanisms of HBV gene regulation, but also a promising ...

It was fed the genomic sequence, which is 3 billion base pairs long, along with maps of chromatin ... chromosome and read by the cell. The model was first trained to learn the relationship between ...

A new study has unveiled the intricate 3D genome structure of Brassica crops, thanks to an optimized Bridge Linker ...