Under pressure: How a synchrotron helped reveal hidden differences in our DNA packaging

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

Researchers reveal a surprising new role for a key protein in cell division

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...
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Century-Old Mystery of Robertsonian Chromosomes Solved

Researchers have identified the exact DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse to form Robertsonian chromosomes, a ...
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Trieste, L'Aquila, Rome: the Italian genomics triangle assembles the new diploid RPE-1 genome, the missing piece for CRISPR, immediately published in California and o…

A few weeks ago, the USCS Genome Browser at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the bible of reference genomics, ...
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Unravelling IPAF, VEDOSS and connective tissue diseases classifications through the mixed connective tissue disease spectrum

Background Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) has long been debated as an early nonspecific phase/symptom of ...
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Croatian Scientists Rewrite the Story of Cell Division

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed to act as a motor dragging chromosomes into place during cell division, in ...
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Study forces a textbook rewrite on cell division

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...