But it wasn’t clear how cells translated being squished into relocating. Many of the same researchers, again working in two independent teams, have now found that the nucleus is responsible for ...

In addition to the nucleus, eukaryotic cells may contain several other types of organelles, which may include mitochondria, chloroplasts, the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus ...

One hypothesis is that the DNA loops could determine which genes are switched on in the cell. Inside a nucleus, chromosomes jumble together like a game of Twister. This can bring regulatory elements, ...

A protein was created where TDP-43 was fused to the SUMO2 protein and these fusion proteins were expressed in cells with or ...

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body’s gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after ...