The basic building blocks of all living things are cells. The body of humans is made up of trillions of cells. Plants and animals are made up of cells. They are considered as the basic units of life.

Protection of Genetic Material: The nuclear envelope shields the DNA from the mechanical and chemical stresses of the ...

We used a microarray approach to measure genome-wide mRNA expression in nucleus accumbens tissue from 26 donors (see Table 1 for demographic and related sample information) with known loneliness ...

New images are providing the first visual evidence of a long-postulated physical link by which genes can receive mechanical cues from its microenvironment. Created by integrating six different imaging ...

Chloroplasts, the plant cell's green solar power generators, were once living beings in their own right. This changed about one billion years ago, when they were swallowed up but not digested by ...

The Plant Cell, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Feb., 2001), pp. 369-383 (15 pages) To study the mechanism of nuclear import of T-DNA, complexes consisting of the virulence proteins VirD2 and VirE2 as well as ...