Sentences with phrase «cell nuclei get»

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Then he remembered things he learned in psychology classes: A cluster of cells in the center of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, gets dosed with the neurotransmitter dopamine when we do something fun, like have sex or eat a doughnut.

The prize will be equally split between biophysicist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in England, biochemist Thomas Steitz of Yale University and molecular biologist Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, for their work in using x-ray crystallography to get a precise, atomic - scale map of the ribosome — the protein - making machine in all cells with nuclei that makes life possible.

In the cell nucleus, it degrades viral DNA to prevent it from getting copied.

This is of interest because a cell's genetic material is housed in the nucleus, and this is the location where different genes get turned on and off in response to external stimuli, such as the presence of lipids from fatty foods.

But nobody understood how PER was getting into the nuclei of the cells where it would act on the period gene.

She's found that the physical arrangement of DNA inside a cell's nucleus can affect cancer genes: for example, if a gene gets stuck in a folded - up piece of DNA, proteins that normally turn it on can no longer access it.

For instance, a science teacher might get kids to use their bodily - kinesthetic abilities by having them perform a lesson, representing a virus or the nucleus of a cell.