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Only Two Interchangeable Ways to Fold Genomes into Nuclei

Precisely how genomes ranging from a few million to billion base-pairs, several meters long, can fold into minuscule cellular nuclei, on average 6 microns in size, is a baffl

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CTBP Graduate Students Win Competitive Travel Grants

Four graduate students (Carlos Bueno, James Liman, Jules Nde and Chengxuan Li) affiliated with Cen

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AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund to Deliver Supercomputing Clusters to Researchers Combatting COVID-19

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NSF's Physics Frontier Center, The Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, expands to Northeastern

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a five-year grant to support a Physics Frontiers Cent

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NSF renews Rice biological physics center

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4th Protein Biophysics at the end of the world

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Actin ‘avalanches’ may make memories stick

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Rice Women in Physics - Margaret Cheung

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Tumbleweeds or fibrils: Tau proteins need to choose

Simulations by Rice scientists suggests two paths tau proteins may take in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s and Pick’s diseases.

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Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA

Theoretical simulations reveal details about how coiled coils may coil again to direct chromosome process.

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