Epigenetic regulation orchestrated by changes in chromatin openness modulates behavioral plasticity by controlling gene expression. However, the gene regulation mechanisms by which chromatin openness ...

Chromatin is a flexibly joined chain of nucleosomes that exists inside the nucleus of eukaryotic cells and has been described as a 'bead on a string'. Chromatin organization strengthens DNA for ...

To the scientists' surprise, it is structural cells called reticular fibroblasts ... There, it will bind to the DNA and open up part of it (chromatin) to enable the activation of other ...

Now, for the first time, EMBL scientists have directly observed this process in high resolution under the microscope using a new chromatin tracing method. The new study shows that the long DNA ...