Study reveals how cells regulate repair protein production to prevent DNA damage over-repair or under-repair, aiding cell ...

The islands of condensed DNA around a DNA break move faster than do healthy DNA, yet the mobility of such islands strongly depends on their size. ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Scientists have watched that process through a microscope for decades: The DNA condenses and organizes into discrete units that gradually shorten and widen. But how the genome gets folded inside that ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Research has recently shown that in live cells, this condensed DNA might behave more like a gel than a liquid or solid at the molecular level, which can help us understand how genes are expressed.

Scaffolds incorporating condensed DNA, plasmid DNA and blank scaffolds were implanted into rat cranium critical-sized defects to examine orthotopic bone regeneration for time periods ranging from ...

This is the job of chromatin, a complex of proteins that packages and condenses DNA within the cell nucleus. However, in this condensed form, the DNA is unreadable and therefore inactive.

The team determined how 53BP1 can form liquid droplets: They found that this process requires the participation of other proteins known to support the structure of those highly condensed DNA. But, in ...

Soft Materials Research Center Research is directed toward understanding and using the properties of condensed phases, ranging from experiments on the fundamental physics of phase transitions and ...

The islands of condensed DNA around a DNA break move faster than do healthy DNA, yet the mobility of such islands strongly depends on their size.