What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

Each cell in our bodies carries about two meters of DNA in its nucleus, packed into a tiny volume of just a few hundred cubic micrometers—about a millionth of a milliliter. The cell manages this by ...

This study identifies DNA packaging changes during adenovirus maturation. Five distinct genomic regions are particularly ...

DNA has to be carefully packaged and organized in cells so it will both physically fit into the nucleus, and also remain accessible to the cellular machinery that transcribes active genes. Together, ...

What do a human, a rose, and a bacterium have in common? Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic acid or ...

The portal protein gp20 of bacteriophage T4 is a dodecamer located at the special five-fold vertex of the viral capsid. Its functions are essential for head assembly, genome packaging, neck and tail ...