The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible to the cellular machinery that works to express the right genes at the ...

It is not only functionally related genes that cluster in the mammalian genome: there also seems to be general clustering of apparently unrelated genes. Specialized genomic regions, such as the ...

Scientists at Penn State University will reveal in the 29 March 2007 issue of the journal Nature the first complete high-resolution map of important structures that control how genes are packaged and ...