This valuable work extends previous studies to convincingly show that the centromere-histone core contributes to force transduction through the kinetochore. The centromere mainly strengthens one of ...

At NC State University, an English professor is searching for clues from the past. He's looked back as far as the eighth ...

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

Dame Esther Rantzen has been reunited with a BBC journalist who was first interviewed by the former That's Life presenter ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers report the successful in vitro reconstitution of meiotic DNA double-strand breaks ...

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

Among the diverse methods for protein analysis, N-terminal sequencing stands out as a powerful tool for determining the amino acid sequence of proteins and peptides. This article delves into the ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.