Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Scientists have provided the most detailed account yet of the earliest stages of DNA replication, an essential process for ...

DNA replication is one of the most basic ... separate fragments that are eventually joined together to form a complete, newly copied strand.

They then pull the two strands apart, allowing other enzymes to complete the replication ... to proceed along the DNA, ...

However, before it can do this, the mRNA strand must separate itself from the DNA template and, in some cases, it must also undergo an editing process of sort. Once termination is complete ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

The DNA repair and replication pathways converge on a common final step in which the continuity of the repaired DNA strand is restored by DNA ligase, an enzyme that converts nicks into phosphodiester ...

In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, Weinstein and postdoctoral scholar Nianchao Qian used the technology to create a complete DNA image of a zebrafish embryo, a common model organism for ...