In their paper the team discusses their novel view of euchromatin in the cell and shows how the revealed organization is relevant to genome functions. “Our ultimate goal is to reveal how genomic ...

Despite great advances in technology over the last century, the physical characteristics of actively expressed chromatin, or euchromatin, remain a mystery. Recent research unveils that euchromatin is ...

Chromatin consists of the DNA molecule and numerous proteins, including histones, which act as packaging proteins. In contrast to the easily accessible euchromatin, which contains the majority of ...

A chromatin is comprised of 147 base pairs of DNA wrapped around a protein core referred to as a histone. The histone is comprised of two units each of H2A, H2B, H3, and H4, making an octamer. The ...

Epigenetics is the study of inherited phenotypic changes caused by mechanisms other than mutations in the underlying DNA sequence. In mammalian cells, most of the chromatin—a complex of DNA, proteins, ...

A new study has illuminated an important process that occurs during cell division and is a likely source of DNA damage under some circumstances, including cancer. A new study from scientists at the ...

Sind wir mehr als die Summe unserer Gene und wie können Umwelteinflüsse die Genexpression verändern? Antworten auf diese Fragen bietet eine neue zukunftsweisende Forschungsrichtung, die Epigenetik. Im ...

Nocturnal animals face an obvious challenge: collecting enough light to see clearly in the dark. We know about many of their tricks. They have bigger eyes and wider pupils. They have a reflective ...