A new PLOS Pathogens study shows that human cytomegalovirus induces and recruits the host chromatin remodeler MORC2 to viral ...

A PLOS Genetics study shows that destabilizing chromatin through a histone H3 mutation hyperactivates the nutrient-sensing ...

As researchers unravel the machinery that controls gene expression, they are finding more mechanistically informed ways to ...

Chromatin remodeling plays a vital role in gene regulation, affecting how DNA is accessed. Disruptions in this process can also lead to cancer and other diseases. To better understand how chromatin ...

Inside each human cell, about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of genomic DNA must be accurately copied and equally transmitted to two daughter cells during cell division. To achieve this, the copied DNA is ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, offering fresh insight into how human cells build and maintain chromatin, ...

A research team led by professor Chan Kui-ming from the Department of Biomedical Sciences at CityUHK discovered that H2BE113K ...

Cells depend on the precise reading of DNA sequences to function correctly. This process, known as gene expression, determines which genetic instructions are activated. When this fails, the wrong ...

If I asked you, dear reader, to come up with a shortlist of the most monumental scientific achievements of the last century, chances are the Human Genome Project (HGP) would appear somewhere on that ...

A comparative genome study and squid embryo experiment explore how folded DNA may shape cephalopod gene regulation.