A quick revision guide covering key concepts, biomolecules, cell organelles, and essential NEET-style MCQs to boost exam ...

The headquarter of a eukaryotic cell is the nucleus, and most of the cell's information and instructions are stored there in the form of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid). The DNA, which is twisted, rolled ...

The basic building blocks of all living things are cells. The body of humans is made up of trillions of cells. Plants and animals are made up of cells. They are considered as the basic units of life.

For more than 30 years, scores of reports have provided evidence for the presence of actin in the nucleus, but until recently the functional significance and even the validity of these findings was in ...

IN his presidential address to the Royal Microscopical Society delivered on Jan. 20, Prof. R. Ruggles Gates reviewed present knowledge regarding nuclear structure, especially in relation to genetics.

For decades the cell nucleus has been a black box of biology—scientists have understood little about its structure or the way it operates. But thanks in part to new visualization technologies, ...

Scientists from Singapore and Germany have identified that the proteins lamin A (Lmna) and lamin B receptor (Lbr) are essential for holding silent genes in their correct position at the edge of the ...

Cancer cells with a cell nucleus that is easily deformed are more sensitive to drugs that damage DNA. These are the findings ...

Tim Mercer receives funding from the NHMRC and ARC. He is affiliated with the Garvan Insitute for Medical Research, and the University of Queensland. When scientists first decided to sequence the ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the 'pacemaker' controlling yeast cell division lies inside the nucleus rather than outside it, as previously thought. Having the pacemaker ...