Each human body cell contains 46 chromosomes. These can be arranged into 23 pairs. Each chromosome in a pair carries the same types of genes. The 23rd pair are the sex chromosomes: In females ...

A tiny protein at the center of Parkinson’s disease also plays a surprising role in melanoma, a dangerous skin cancer. New ...

Using single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq and ... deeper investigations of the brain’s cellular and circuit function, development and evolution, akin to the reference ...

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

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

The film explores the structure and function of plant and animal cells using a microscope. It begins with observing onion cells, highlighting their components such as the cell wall, nucleus ...

For example, how Talin-1 travels to the nucleus and whether sensing mechanical forces is required for its capacity to control gene expression. This discovery in basic cell biology has important ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a new function of the DNA ...