Chromatin couples are needed to form loops
Guest Blog Series 2026 By Andres Hernandez Maduro Chromosomal DNA strands are long. In each of your body cells, there is approximately two metres worth of DNA packed tightly in a chamber (the nucleus) around five micrometres in diameter. They are also quite sticky, and if thrown into a random soup of molecules will tend…
A tale of two sequences
Lego bricks join up easily, with each part having a distinct function. Photo by Arto Alanenpää on Wikimedia Commons, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Biology never makes things easy for us. It’s tempting to think of the genome as a well-oiled machine, with separate regions that join neatly together like Lego bricks to perform an overall…
Call for Submissions: Guest Blog Series 2026!
The Chromatin Digest is open to submissions for a Guest Blog Series! 🙂 UPDATE 18/04/26: Submissions will be accepted beyond Friday 24th April 2026, and will be uploaded on a rolling basis. Thank you! If you’re interested in scientific writing, have some fascinating research to share, or a story you wish to tell, I would…