How the cell achieves this feat remains largely unknown. Now, for the first time, EMBL scientists have directly observed this process in high resolution under the microscope using a new chromatin ...

How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a family of small, positively charged proteins termed H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 (Van Holde ...

The high resolution of structured illumination microscopy and the strong signal due to chromosome condensation ... sister chromatids (Figure 1C) after DNA replication. We next aimed to verify ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that make up the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

The nucleus of each human body cell contains 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome contains about 1000 genes. There is enough DNA in all the cells in a human body to stretch to the sun and back again ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that comprise the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

To explore this, the researchers used a high-throughput method to screen various doses of BBP ... So, it's very easy to see,” she said. To zoom in on changes in chromosome organization during meiosis, ...

It also contains telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), which uses TERC to synthesize and add telomeric DNA repeats to the ends of the chromosomes. In contrast to human somatic cells that are ...