New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Chromatin structure articles from across Nature Portfolio Chromatin structure describes the physical structure of chromatin within the eukaryotic nucleus and how structure affects chromatin ...

News & Views Published: June 2009 Inverted rod nuclei see the light Christopher Eskiw & Peter Fraser Nature Cell Biology 11, 680–681 (2009) Cite this article ...

Our DNA is carefully packaged inside the cell nucleus, to control how each cell in our body behaves. When a cell divides, its DNA must first be copied and then re-packaged precisely, so that each new ...

A recent review by Prof. Zhu Bing and Associate Professor Xiong Jun from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Proteins and enzymes in the cell nucleus require physical access to their DNA target sites in order to perform genomic tasks such as gene activation and transcription. Hence, chromatin accessibility ...