How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a family of small, positively charged proteins termed H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 (Van Holde ...

In both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, this highly compacted DNA is then arranged into structures called chromosomes. Chromosomes take different shapes in different types of organisms. For instance ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it ...

Utrecht University has appointed Bas van Steensel as Special Professor of Chromosome Biology. Van Steensel will lead fundamental research into how chromosomes function and how genetic information is ...

In most animal, plant and fungal cells DNA is stored in the nucleus coiled up in thread-like structures called chromosomes. The nucleus of one of your skin cells contains about two metres of DNA ...

X chromosomes are expressed differently depending ... A person’s gender, on the other hand, is a function of cultural and personal norms and beliefs. It is for this reason that gender is ...

The human genome is comprised of two sets of 23 chromosomes -- 46 chromosomes ... that don't code for proteins and have no known function. Within the rest of the genome are an estimated 70,000 ...

However, the absence of an enlarged HAC suggest that the constructs aren’t rearranged by linking together, or sticking to the host’s chromosomes, he said. The new method may one day be used for gene ...

which reside in the middle of the chromosomes; transposons that can target the ends are less likely to disrupt an essential function or cause cell death. "If you could target the end, you're less ...