The Best BioTechniques' "Educational Video of the Year"

Nucleosome Clutches

Maria Pia Cosma, Melike Lakadamyali, and colleagues, Institut de Ciències Fotòniques and Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Using STORM microscopy, Cosma and colleagues find that nucleosomes associate in discrete clutches along the chromatin fiber and clutch size correlates with cell identity. Check out the paper at: http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S00...

A Custom Home for Stem Cells

Leonard Zon and colleagues, Zon Laboratory, Harvard Medical School

Leonard Zon and colleagues describe how stem cells induce remodeling of the perivascular niche.

 How does DNA fold? The loop extrusion model Aiden Lab, Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University

The human genome is two meters long but fits inside the microscopic nucleus of a cell. How does it do this? Our work suggests that the genome forms loops and domains through a process called extrusion!

Personalized Nutrition

Eran Segal and Eran Elinav, Personalized Nutrition Project, Weizmann Institute of Science

Doctors and nutrition specialists keep telling us what foods are good and bad for our metabolism and health. But does it work for everyone? Scientists led by Eran Segal and Eran Elinav at the Weizmann Institute of Science find that, surprisingly, everyone responds to the same foods quite different because of their unique 

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