If I asked you, dear reader, to come up with a shortlist of the most monumental scientific achievements of the last century, chances are the Human Genome Project (HGP) would appear somewhere on that ...

There is a huge amount of DNA in most human cells, and that DNA has to be carefully compacted and organized so that it will fit into a cell’s nucleus, while the crucial parts of it remain accessible ...

It is a question that has been posed to every biology student: How does all of our DNA fit into tiny cells? The answer, of course, is compression, compression, compression! The result, chromatin, is ...