The way our genes are arrayed and move in the 3 - D
space of the cell nucleus turns out to profoundly influence how they function, in both health and disease
Not exact matches
Finding the answer would fill a major gap in the history
of eukaryotes (literally,
cells with a «true
nucleus»), which in the
space of two billion years have populated the world with everything from singled -
celled amoeba and plankton to pine trees, scientists and,
of course, elephants.
Billions
of years ago, an iron
nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into
space at close to the speed
of light — headed for your
cells
Histones are vitally important because our genetic material is vast: every
cell in the body has more than six feet
of DNA bundled within a tiny
nucleus, a
space much smaller than can be seen with the naked eye.
Note the location
of donor
cell nuclei in both the inner retina and subretinal
space.
Which is roughly where things stood until last year when Princeton bioengineers Marina Feric and Cliff Brangwynne published a paper in Nature
Cell Biology describing their probing of cellular inner space, the cell nucleus, and their discovery that gravity could limit cell s
Cell Biology describing their probing
of cellular inner
space, the
cell nucleus, and their discovery that gravity could limit cell s
cell nucleus, and their discovery that gravity could limit
cell s
cell size.