Barcelona, 10 October 2024 - DNA—the molecule that carries the genetic information of all living organisms—is packaged within cells in a complex manner that allows it to function efficiently.

Individual cells divide through a process called mitosis, during which the cell's copied DNA is separated between two resulting daughter cells. Despite recent advances in cell biology, the mechanism ...

Computer simulations visualize in atomic detail how DNA opens while wrapped around proteins. Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and the Max Planck Institute for ...

The eukaryotic genome can be up to 130 billion base pairs long, but required to fit inside each cell nucleus. To do this, DNA is tightly wrapped around histone proteins in bead-like clusters. Each ...

Histones serve as slates to a dizzying array of modifications, but researchers are confident they can decipher the epigenetic puzzle. Roughly two meters of DNA gets packed into every cell nucleus in ...

The cell's genetic material, DNA, is packaged into tightly wound structures called nucleosomes. The DNA (red) is wound around two sets of core histone proteins (green) to form a kind of bead on a ...

Feng Cui, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the RIT Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences. He earned a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University and subsequently ...