CpG density and epigenetic modification state modulate DNA mechanics, altering its intrinsic compatibility with nucleosome formation.

A new study shows how histones undergo correct chemical modifications during synthesis to guide new therapies.

The Warburg effect describes how cancer cells switch from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis even in oxygen-rich ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in ...

For years, ETH researchers have been investigating a molecular complex that plays a key role in protein synthesis. They have ...

Garcia Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...

A game-changining achievement in genome science has identified over 140,000 distinct DNA loops in our cells, providing chromosome fold resolution that is among the best ever created. In this ongoing ...

A recently published article in Nature Communications by Dr. Qiang Su and colleagues reports a novel molecular pathway that intensifies myocardial injury following coronary microembolization (CME).

At the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, mouse geneticist Antoine Peters and his team investigate how ...

Triglia discusses her research at the intersection of genetics, epigenetics, single-cell genomics and computational biology.

Thymagen (also called thymogen; dipeptide Glu-Trp, EW) is a synthetic peptide analog derived from thymic extracts and regarded in peptide bioregulator research for its putative immunoregulatory and ...