News tagged with chromatin interactions

Singapore scientists describe novel method for 3-D whole genome mapping research

In this week's Nature, Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) scientists report a technological advance in the study of gene expression and regulation in the genome's three-dimensional folding and looping state through the de ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Modeling the miniscule: High-resolution design of nanoscale biomolecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- A key element of both biotechnology and nanotechnology is – perhaps unsurprisingly – computational modeling. Frequently, in silico nanostructure design and simulation precedes actual ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Researchers provide atomic view of a histone chaperone

Mayo Clinic researchers have gained insights into the function of a member of a family of specialized proteins called histone chaperones. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, they ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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IRCM researchers fuel an important debate in the field of molecular biology

Dr. Francois Robert, molecular biology researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team confirmed that the phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II, a key enzyme in the process of gene ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Study provides new insights into an ancient mechanism of mammalian evolution

A team of geneticists and computational biologists in the UK today reveal how an ancient mechanism is involved in gene control and continues to drive genome evolution. The new study is published in the journal ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Researchers solve a protein complex's molecular structure to explain its role in gene silencing

A cell's genome maintains its integrity by organizing some of its regions into a super-compressed form of DNA called heterochromatin. In the comparatively simple organism fission yeast, a cellular phenomenon known as RNA ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers generate first complete 3-D structures of bacterial chromosome

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Stanford University and the Prince Felipe Research Centre in Spain have deciphered the complete three-dimensional structure ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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How bookmarking genes pre-cell division hastens their subsequent reactivation

In order for cells of different types to maintain their identities even after repeated rounds of cell division, each cell must "remember" which genes were active before division and pass along that memory to its daughter ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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New technique gives precise picture of how regulatory RNA controls gene activity

A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine allows researchers to identify the exact DNA sequences and locations bound by regulatory RNAs. This information is necessary to understand ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Untangling the life sciences

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Dr. Michael Stadler and his Computational Biology group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research became a member laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Live from the scene: Biochemistry in action

Researchers can now watch molecules move in living cells, literally millisecond by millisecond, thanks to a new microscope developed by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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