Scientists found that cells across animals, plants, fungi and many single-celled organisms use remarkably similar ancient ...

RIKEN researchers have succeeded in reconstituting long stretches of chromatin arrays. In this atomic force microscopy image, the reconstituted chromatin array contains about 98 nucleosomes. Credit: ...

Every cell type in the human body carries the same approximately 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA, yet a liver cell behaves nothing like a neuron. The epigenome explains this difference: in each cell, ...

The signals that cells use to switch genes on have remained almost unchanged across two billion years of evolution, but the ...

Researchers say study helps understand how genomes evolved, and could have implications for medical research into diseases involving faulty gene regulation.

This Brush Up is sponsored by Cayman Chemical. Learn more about chemical inhibitors of histone modification. Histone modification affects how tightly DNA wraps around histone proteins, yielding ...

Certain epigenetic modifications can directly control how genetic material is packed in the nucleus, RIKEN researchers have shown. This has important implications for our understanding of how genes ...