Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.
Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...
For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...
Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...
Now, for the first time, EMBL scientists have directly observed this process in high resolution under the microscope using a new chromatin tracing ... essential role in packing chromosomes into ...
Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.
Chromatin is a flexibly joined chain of nucleosomes that exists inside the nucleus of eukaryotic cells and has been described as a 'bead on a string'. Chromatin organization strengthens DNA for ...