Whether it is a microbe, a rose, or a dolphin, any form of life gets its building and operating instructions from the molecule of life, DNA. DNA comprises the genes and chromosomes that govern the ...

Telomere shortening and DNA damage play crucial roles in aging, a multifaceted biological phenomenon characterized by a ...

A UCLA-led study has created a map of DNA modification in two regions of the brain critical to learning, memory and emotional ...

New research shows that DNA replication in early mouse embryos doesn't follow the expected patterns seen in older cells. A ...

According to the conservative model, after one round of replication ... from the original double-stranded DNA unwinding at a single spot on the chromosome known as the replication origin.

A centromere is a specialized location in the DNA that functions as the control centre of cell division and is maintained, ...

as well as for DNA replication, repair, and segregation to daughter cells. Chromosomes can be considered as self-organized liquid crystals Nucleosomes are repetitive building blocks introduced in ...

An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study ...

Chromosome Dynamics: Although genetic information is encoded in a one-dimensional array of DNA bases, all major DNA processes (replication, transcription and recombination) are controlled by changes ...

We are interested in the mechanism of chromosome replication, a process that is highly conserved across eukaryotes and that involves the duplication of both the chromosomal DNA and its associated ...

However, the idea that replication forks would form at origins of DNA replication and proceed without impairment to copy the chromosomes has proven naive ... to analyze the events that occur after the ...

This opening sentence of James Watson and Francis Crick's second major paper, published shortly after the ... structure of DNA; details about the organization of DNA into chromosomes, genes ...