A team of scientists has discovered surprising connections among gene activity, genome packing, and genome-wide motions, revealing aspects of the genome's organization that directly affect gene ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals that DNA organizes into a complex 3D structure before genes activate, changing how scientists view early life.

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion. Researchers discovered that it actively reshapes the 3D structure of the human ...

An illustration of multicolored tangle of threads within a small black sphere. A 3D illustration shows DNA packaged into the nucleus, scientists with the 4D Nucleome project are now building accurate ...

Some of the incredible complexity underlying the genome is understood. For example, the effects of chromatin remodeling on gene expression. However, the implications of the movements that occur during ...

It is still not fully understood how, despite having the same set of genes, cells turn into neurons, bones, skin, heart, or roughly 200 other kinds of cells, and then exhibit stable cellular behavior ...

Life begins with a quiet but precise choreography inside the nucleus. For decades, scientists believed that a newly fertilized egg started in disorder, its DNA loosely arranged and waiting for ...