A new study finds that proteins known as linker histones control the complex coiling process that determines whether DNA will wind into long and thin chromosomes, made up of many small loops, or short ...

Finding a needle in a haystack is hard enough. But try finding a specific molecule on the needle. Rice University researchers have achieved something of the sort with a new genome editing tool that ...

Histones are proteins that are used to organize and compact DNA. Some giant viruses called Marseilleviridae, which infect amoebas, have also been found to use histones; they wind their DNA around ...

The genetic material--DNA-- of plants and animals (within the latter humans) is stored inside the cell, and DNA packing is guaranteed by proteins called histones. Furthermore, histones play a key role ...

In our cells, 6 feet (1.8 m) of DNA gets crammed into chromosomes that fit inside a 6-µm-wide nucleus. The proteins that help pack up that genetic material are histones, which act as spools around ...

UCLA scientists have identified a new function for histones, the spool-shaped proteins that regulate gene expression and serve as anchors for strands of DNA to wrap around. The researchers discovered ...

Overproduction of histones also predicted aggressiveness of invasive breast cancer based on an analysis of 13 paraffin-embedded samples. One of the study’s co-first authors, Ye Zheng, PhD, then a ...

UNFRACTIONATED preparations of histones from normal mammalian tissues have been reported to inhibit the growth of transplantable tumours in rats 1. Incubation of mucous cancer cells of liver with rat ...

Lung fibrosis is a debilitating disease affecting nearly 250,000 people in the U.S. alone with 50,000 new cases reported each year. There is currently no cure and limited available treatment options, ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Every second, as we breathe, sleep, eat and go about our lives, millions of biochemical reactions are happening in our cells. Among the hurly ...