DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions, it can temporarily fold ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

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In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible to the cellular machinery that works to express the right genes at the ...

Cell karyotype exhibiting trisomy: A conceptual image of a cell karyotype exhibiting trisomy, three copies of one chromosome. Credit: NIH – CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr. A team of researchers has generated ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

Scientists have uncovered the hidden structure inside DNA droplets, revealing how chromatin fibers pack and behave at microscopic scales. Credit: Shutterstock Inside every human cell, an extraordinary ...

The answers were always there, waiting as the years and decades ticked by: Who killed five people kidnapped from a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Kilgore on Sept. 23, 1983? Finally, though, the science, ...

James Watson speaks at a 2016 event for undergraduates in Harvard's Science Center. The talk was organized by Organismic and Evolutionary Biology lecturer Andrew J. Berry.By Savannah I. Whaley When ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...