Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about the genetic structure of ovarian cancer stem cells, ...

During interphase, individual chromosomes are not visible, and the chromatin appears diffuse ... are located outside the nucleus in animal cells, the microtubules of the developing spindle do ...

Polycomb proteins are used to maintain a repressive chromatin state in both kingdoms but appear to function differently in the stem cells: they repress differentiation genes in animal stem cells ...

Chromatin remodeling plays a vital role in gene regulation, affecting how DNA is accessed. Disruptions in this process can ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

A novel technique to visualize gene-active and gene-repressive DNA regions in living cells, developed by a ...