The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible to the cellular machinery that works to express the right genes at the ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

Before cells can divide by mitosis, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can receive a full set of genetic material. Scientists have until now ...

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally ...