Researchers discovered that stiff DNA segments inside nucleosomes physically block chromatin remodeling. The remodeling ...

About 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV infection. In the United Kingdom, there are approximately 100,000 ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective ...

Our understanding of both clogged arteries and the building blocks of dna are thanks to the groundbreaking work of Dr. Marie ...

The ability to self-organize is a key feature of biological systems and is widely found in nature: small building blocks that autonomously assemble give rise to macromolecules such as the cell nucleus ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

The mechanism of HIV-1 genome uncoating is currently not well understood. This work shows that capsid-targeting drugs lay ...

The findings may have important implications for diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. A newly identified form of DNA damage inside mitochondria, the small structures that supply energy to our ...

Cornell (NY, USA) researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move ...