An estimated 7% of all men are affected by infertility. Multiple animal studies indicate that exposure to persistent ...

A study reveals chromatin moves in constrained or freer patterns, shaping how genes contact regulatory elements and repair ...

Gene expression is controlled, in part, by the interactions between genes and regulatory elements located along the genome.

A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...

Abstract: The chromosome structure plays a decisive role in the transmission and expression of biological genetic information. Here in, the atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to investigate the ...

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Biology, Biomedical Engineering (BME), Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Duke Center for Genomic and ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but necessary to explain cosmology. Astronomy, however, isn't the only field with ...

ABSTRACT: Based on the number of available sites for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine on all DNA strands, the information theoretical entropy as well as the configurational entropy of a DNA ...

Two different types of centromeres evolved from a monocentromere, a macro-monocentromere in Cha. luteum and a holocentromere in Chi. japonica. Micrographs show mitotic chromosomes. The centromere is ...