A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

Murre and his colleagues hypothesized that proteins controlling the folding and packaging of DNA in the nucleus might also influence the ... dimensional chromatin organization in driving cellular ...

Besides the nucleus, two other organelles — the mitochondrion ... to generate energy and carry out other necessary cellular functions, and the host eukaryotes came to rely on the contribution ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

The unexpected discovery may provide scientists with new insights into how cancer develops — and how to combat it.

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell nuclei of all flora and fauna. In addition to exporting materials out of the ...

The IAEA's NUCLEUS information resource portal provides access to over 100 scientific, technical and regulatory resources, including databases, applications, publications and training material. As it ...

Histones are a family of basic proteins that associate with DNA in the nucleus and help condense ... Some histones function as spools for the thread-like DNA to wrap around. Under the microscope ...