A trader in Mombasa told The Nairobian that his beads are sourced from Zanzibar, where they are crafted purposely for lovemaking. A look at what he stocks indicates intricately strung beads in ...

This is not your childhood Hobby Hut. Instead, Beads Galore is for the grown-ups, those of us serious about copying those expensive designs we see in the Sundance and Anthropologie catalogues.

Under the microscope in its extended form, chromatin looks like beads on a string. The beads are called nucleosomes. Each nucleosome is made of DNA wrapped around eight histone proteins that ...