They are called plectonemes. They are the analog of the twisted tangles of telephone cords, and can form in DNA that is pulled through a nanoscale channel. This is the finding of a study led by Ulrich ...

"It won’t be long before we know whether we are right or wrong,” remarked Professor Erio Tosatti when, in 2014, PNAS published a study by SISSA/ICTP carried out with Michele Fabrizio, Sandro Scandolo, ...

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Si chiamano plectonemi, sono torsioni simili a quelle di un filo del telefono attorcigliato e si formano quando il DNA è trascinato in un canale stretto a livello nanometrico. È quanto emerge da uno ...

It was already known that people affected by Parkinson’s disease, when subjected to deep brain stimulation, gained weight, but it was less clear why that was so. Thanks to new SISSA research, it has ...

Flee or freeze? In nature, survival hinges on making the right split-second choice when danger strikes, and the brain’s defensive circuits are built for exactly that task. Yet what counts as the ...

According to many scientists the fact that ALS patients experience (in addition to severe motor deficits) greater linguistic difficulty with verbs denoting action compared to nouns denoting objects ...

In the Universe, dark matter and standard matter “talk” to each other using a secret language. This “discussion” happens thanks to gravity, scientists say, but not in a way they can fully comprehend.

Chloride ion flows that enter the cells play an important role in the duplication of glioblastoma cells, a highly aggressive brain tumor. This is the finding of research recently published in the ...

They are billions of times larger than our Sun: how is it possible that, as recently observed, supermassive black holes were already present when the Universe, now 14 billion years old, was “just” 800 ...