Chromatin refers to proteins that help organize ... James Watson and Francis Crick were able to piece together the first accurate model of DNA. Shown here is the structure of naked DNA -- DNA ...

Around the same time, researchers James Watson and Francis Crick were pursuing a definitive model for the stable ... in a coiled form is called chromatin. DNA can be further compressed through ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

A physically consistent and realistic structural model for DNA organization in chromosomes ... and the known self-associative properties of chromatin, and also with an effective protection of ...

the DNA might, for example, spiral through a centromeric higher-order structure. Flanking heterochromatin might form a boundary that limits the spreading of centromeric chromatin in monocentric ...

To do so, they planned to stabilize proteins at their chromatin binding locations and use nucleic acid hybridization to fish out specific DNA sequences along with the bound proteins. By using enzymes ...

“We proposed that dehydration led to a glass transition of chromatin that arrested molecular movement of DNA fragments, which we dubbed chromatin glass, or ‘chromoglass’.” The researchers tested a ...