News tagged with nuclear genes

A secret to night vision found in DNA's unconventional 'architecture'

Researchers have discovered an important element for making night vision possible in nocturnal mammals: the DNA within the photoreceptor rod cells responsible for low light vision is packaged in a very unconventional way, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lamin B locks up Oct-1

A large fraction of the transcription factor Oct-1 is associated with the inner nuclear envelope, but how and why it is retained there was unknown.

Biology /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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