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 ...

The transitional state of this social amoeba is intriguing, as it usually exists as separate cells, but when conditions ...

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

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

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating proteins and cells, the building blocks of life, according to a pioneering ...

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

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...