Scientists uncover how the nucleolus, a tiny structure within cells, may control aging and lifespan, opening new ...

Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its ...

From the evidence of karyomeres in animal cells, the nucleus is regarded as a compound structure, and it was further suggested that the spindle is also compound, the real unit in mitosis being a ...

The transitional state of this social amoeba is intriguing, as it usually exists as separate cells, but when conditions ...

A novel, freely available AI tool has cut the time it takes to determine chromatin structure from days to minutes. The 3D structure of DNA is important for controlling cell-specific gene expression ...

Zhang and his colleagues designed a generative AI model called ChromoGen to quickly ‘read’ DNA sequences and predict the ...

From sequence to structure Inside the cell nucleus, DNA and proteins form a complex called chromatin, which has several levels of organization, allowing cells to cram 2 meters of DNA into a ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

Racial disparities in mortality are increasing. This article explores how the production of DNA-edited ethnically diverse ...

As well as being essential in the precise packaging of DNA into the space of the nucleus, histone proteins are also the site ...