Single-cell transcriptomics has revolutionized the study of cellular diversity and function by enabling gene expression ...

Some histones function as spools for the thread-like DNA to wrap around. Under the microscope in its extended form, chromatin looks like beads on a string. The beads are called nucleosomes.

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Long ...

the hepatitis B virus’s DNA needs to get organized into DNA-histone complexes called “nucleosomes.” Nucleosomes are like beads on a string — the string is the viral DNA, and the beads are ...