With the spool of thread in her hand, the Ancient Greek figure Clotho was able to decide the fate of the mortals on Earth. Clotho had the ability to start and restore life, bringing back into the ...

Many materials, like ribbons or spools of yarn, thread, or twine can be messy and create a cluttered look if they become unwound or tangled in whatever container you have stored them in or when ...

Some histones function as spools for the thread-like DNA to wrap around. Under the microscope in its extended form, chromatin looks like beads on a string. The beads are called nucleosomes.