Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Inspection of the static X-ray structure of the nucleosome 2 might lead to the expectation that substantial regions of nuclear DNA will be completely protected from reaction with electrophilic ...

There is a concerted effort by a number of public and private groups to identify a large set of human single-nucleotide polymorphisms1,2 (SNPs). As of March 2001, 2.84 million SNPs have been ...