In a first, researchers have worked out a way to unravel and model the tangled, 3D structures of intact mammalian genomes from individual cells. The new method, published Monday in Nature, could help ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

If a species wants to survive, genetic information has to be passed successfully from one generation to the next. For fathers and sons, DNA must be carefully packaged in sperm. Now scientists have ...

Each chromosome consists of one continuous thread-like molecule of DNA coiled tightly around proteins, and contains a portion of the 6,400,000,000 basepairs (DNA building blocks) that make up your DNA ...

A tremendous amount of genetic material must be packed into the nucleus of every cell -- a tiny compartment. One of the biggest challenges in biology is to understand how certain regions of this ...

If stretched out and laid end-to-end, the DNA in a human cell's 46 chromosomes would span about 6 feet. Yet it fits inside of a nucleus only micrometers in diameter. Somehow, the DNA gets compacted by ...

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-powered motors package DNA into viral proheads via a portal nanochannel, overcoming large forces resisting DNA confinement arising from DNA bending rigidity, electrostatic ...

Specially packaged DNA secreted by tumor cells can trigger an immune response that inhibits the metastatic spread of the tumor to the liver, according to a new study. The discovery improves the ...

Specially packaged DNA secreted by tumor cells can trigger an immune response that inhibits the metastatic spread of the tumor to the liver, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell ...

Baltimore, MD--A tremendous amount of genetic material must be packed into the nucleus of every cell--a tiny compartment. One of the biggest challenges in biology is to understand how certain regions ...