The trunk of each 'Christmas tree' (a transcription unit) represents a DNA molecule; the tree branches (granular strings attached to the DNA) are RNA molecules that have been transcribed from the DNA.

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and ... Part of the problem lies in the fact that electron microscopy is perhaps the best way to visualize packaging, but individual ...

A team at Nagoya University experimented with ways to uncurl a DNA molecule using pressure applied ... of the stretch ratio of the DNA. Most microscopes can only illuminate objects down to a ...

Most microscopes can only ... for stretching and immobilizing DNA with minimum thermal fluctuation to enable detailed analysis. "Immobilizing the molecule essentially 'glues' it to a substrate ...

Until now, this was only possible using expensive structural biology methods such as electron ... With ONE microscopy, the first individual images of the entire molecule are available less than ...

In all living organisms, DNA contains the code that defines ... because such studies relied on techniques like cryo-electron microscopy, which require frozen samples, thus only providing snapshots ...