Despite great advances in technology over the last century, the physical characteristics of actively expressed chromatin, or euchromatin, remain a mystery. Recent research unveils that euchromatin is ...

In their paper the team discusses their novel view of euchromatin in the cell and shows how the revealed organization is relevant to genome functions. “Our ultimate goal is to reveal how genomic ...

The nuclei of most human cells contains the entire genome, which would have a length of about six feet if it was fully extended. So this DNA has to be carefully compacted in cells, while still ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a method to visualize different types of chromatin and reveal their distinct ...