News tagged with nuclear rna

In next-gen DNA sequence, new answers to a rare and devastating disease

In Leigh syndrome, infants are born apparently healthy only to develop movement and breathing disorders that worsen over time, often leading to death by the age of 3. The problem is that the mitochondria responsible for powering ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mimicking nature at the nanoscale: Selective transport across a biomimetic nanopore

Researchers at Delft University of Technology and the University of Basel have established a biomimetic nanopore that provides a unique test and measurement platform for the way that proteins move into a cell's nucleus. In ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nature study shows how molecules escape from the nucleus

By constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have illuminated the molecular ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biologists reveal structure of cell nucleus 'gatekeeper'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists led by associate professor Thomas Schwartz (MIT) have worked out a rudimentary architectural plan for the nuclear pore complex (NPC), the gatekeeper of the cell's nucleus.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Plant polymerases IV and V are special forms of Polymerase II

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a little like finding out that Superman is actually Clark Kent. A team of biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that two vital cellular components, nuclear RNA ...

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