The cell is understood to be highly organized, with specialized areas for different functions and molecular motors shuttling components around. Researchers from the University of Illinois' Chicago and ...

Using computer simulations, chemists have discovered how nuclear bodies called nucleoli interact with chromosomes in the nucleus, and how those interactions help the nucleoli exist as stable droplets ...

Educators and scientists should discard the idea that a cell's nucleus is just a bag of chromosomes, according to Johns Hopkins' cell biologist Kathy Wilson, Ph.D. In a Feb. 17 session at the annual ...

Despite being densely packed to fit into the nucleus, chromosomes storing our genetic information are always in motion. This allows specific regions to come into contact and thereby activate a gene. A ...

The nucleus is also home to small bodies called nucleoli - clusters of proteins and RNA that help build ribosomes. Using computer simulations, MIT chemists have now discovered how these bodies ...

The spatial arrangement of genetic material within the cell nucleus plays an important role in the development of an organism. A research team has developed a method to trace the chromosomes in ...

Study shows that where broken chromosome pieces sit within the nucleus impacts where they reconnect; reveals new guiding principles for cancer genomics In cancer cells, the process of chromosome ...

Our genome is huge. It's made up of about 3 billion base pairs, and if the whole molecule was stretched to its full length, it would extend for about two meters (over six feet) So it's fairly ...

Genomes contain the complete library of information required to build and maintain a living organism—the figurative blueprints of life. In eukaryotes, genomes are stored in the nuclei, where they are ...

(A) Stained, diploid spread of chicken metaphase chromosomes. (B) Same spread after multicolor FISH with pseudocolored chromosomes. (C) Probes were detected using antibodies. (D) Mid-plane light ...