Small packages The nucleus holds the cell's chromosomes and the nucleolus where the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is housed. The nucleolus isolates the rDNA which encodes the RNA portions of the ribosomes ...

More than a decade of research shows that the nucleolus—the largest structure in the eukaryotic nucleus—plays a pivotal role in aging. Now, a new study analyzing yeast cells suggests both that ...

It was the summer of 2000, and for the first few months of my postdoc I had been fusing green fluorescent protein with novel proteins that had recently been identified by mass spectrometry as residing ...

It was expected that by analysing the characteristics of chromosome and nucleolus behaviour, abnormalities specific to the internal organization of tumour cells might be detected. The present ...

"The sex of a somatic cell as highly differentiated as a neurone ... which is much smaller than the nucleolus." In the early 1960s, researcher Mary Lyon built on Ohno's cytological observations ...