Perhaps frog eggs maintain shorter chromosomes to allow for rapid cell division." In the future, Funabiki's lab will explore whether linker histones play a similar role in influencing the size and ...

New findings shed light on how chromosomes manage the various pushing and pulling forces generated when cells divide. Specifically, researchers show that chromosomes resist being punctured by the ...

A microscopy image of the complete set of chromosomes in a 2-cell stage mouse embryo reveals chemical tags that ,decorate, DNA-packaging proteins called histones. The tag H3K27me3 (shown in green), ...

Chromosomes are thread-like structures located inside the nucleus of animal and plant cells. Each chromosome is made of protein and a single molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Passed from ...

An article by UAB professor Joan-Ramon Daban analyzes in depth the physical problems associated with DNA packaging that have often been neglected in structural models of chromosomes. The study ...