Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Long ...

When scientists isolated the kinetoplast using density gradients and centrifugation, collected the DNA content on grids, and studied it under the electron microscope, they discovered that the kDNA ...

The Brandeis Electron Microscopy Facility is located on the 4th floor of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, part of the Greater ...

Researchers have revealed new details about the CRISPR-Cas5-HNH/Cascade complex, a variant of the type I-E CRISPR-Cas system, providing insights into its DNA recognition and cleavage mechanisms.

The high-resolution views provided by cryo-electron microscopy are helping scientists learn how proteins and DNA collaborate to repair broken DNA. In an eagerly awaited study, Memorial Sloan Kettering ...

A study published in Nature Communications and conducted by researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed new ...

The enormously long genomic DNA molecules in eukaryotic organisms ... researchers had previously used transmission electron ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...