Tag: nucleus
Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)
Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity.
Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous
Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die.
Nuclear Pore Complex Comes into Focus
Super-resolution microscopy is letting us peer even closer into the cell’s secrets, revealing awesome wonders.
DNA Packing: One of the Supreme Wonders of Nature
The cell packs two meters of DNA into a 10-micron nucleus. How? The machinery is as intelligently designed as the genome itself.
#2 Story of 2021: Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA
There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components.