High-performance microscope displays pores in the cell nucleus with greater precision

Friday, June 26, 2015 - 08:31 in Physics & Chemistry

The transportation of certain molecules into and out of the cell nucleus takes place via nuclear pores. For some time, detailed research has been conducted into how these pores embedded in the nuclear envelope are structured. Now, for the first time, biochemists have succeeded in elucidating the structure of the transportation channel inside the nuclear pores in high resolution using high-performance electron microscopes.

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