The protein UBR7 acts as a histone chaperone, regulating histone re-deposition at specific sites during DNA replication, according a recent study published in The EMBO Journal. This protein was ...

The tight wrapping of genomic DNA around nucleosomes in the cell nucleus makes it unavailable for gene expression. A team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now describes a mechanism ...

Colorado State University has identified an alternate method to study changes during the DNA replication process in lab settings using genetically modified yeast Researchers at Colorado State ...

Researchers have revealed the structural mechanisms of a major DNA repair pathway in human cells. The research, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, is described by the editors as a ...

Hydrogels are polymeric materials with three-dimensional network structures containing large amounts of water. They serve as sustained-release drug delivery systems as they can encapsulate various ...

Dr. Roger L. McMacken Jr., the former chair of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who was an expert on DNA replication, died of a brain tumor Dec ...

Researchers have discovered the structure of the FACT protein -- a mysterious protein central to the functioning of DNA. It's long been known that the proteins that package DNA, like students at a ...

Synthetic biology researchers have developed a genome the size of a minimal cell that can copy itself. The field of synthetic biology does not only observe and describe processes of life but also ...