Everyone has that one friend who's the life of the party, bringing people together and keeping everyone connected. Now, researchers from Japan find that an unusually structured protein plays a similar role in bringing a diverse ...
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Jan 12, 2023
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have mapped key details of how molecular partners regulate assembly of protein-making factories called ribosomes.
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Dec 6, 2018
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All cells in the body have the basic ability to protect themselves from infection, called the innate immune response. But how cells do this is not very well understood. Recently, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for ...
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Sep 11, 2018
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The size of a cell's nucleolus may reveal how long that cell, or even the organism that cell belongs to, will live. Over the past few years, researchers have been piecing together an unexpected link between aging and an organelle ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 17, 2018
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A tiny speck inside the cells of a tiny worm is shedding new light on the underlying mechanism that determines the size of various organisms.
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Feb 1, 2017
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Researchers at Princeton found that the nucleolus, a cellular organelle involved in RNA synthesis, assembles in part through the passive process of phase separation – the same type of process that causes oil to separate ...
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Feb 1, 2017
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Although known since the 1830s as a round, dark spot in a cell's nucleus, only recently has the nucleolus gotten its full due. Scientists have learned that besides building a cell's protein factories, this specialized subunit, ...
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May 20, 2016
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Researchers have determined that the protein nucleophosmin (NPM1) serves as glue that holds proteins and RNA together in the nucleolus and showed how NPM1's structure makes it ideal for the job. St. Jude Children's Research ...
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Mar 1, 2016
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Researchers in Freiburg identify a protein responsible for the correct arrangement of the chromosome centromeres in the nucleus.
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Apr 4, 2013
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