and allowed to compete for hybridization sites on either metaphase chromosomes (left) or an array of BAC (bacterial artificial chromosome) clones that represent thousands of small DNA segments ...

In a paper published in Science, researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus ... Supercoiling explains how chromosomes fit into a small corner of the cell, but how do the proteins involved in replication and transcription access the ...