Search Results
Educational Resources
A Golgi body, also known as a Golgi apparatus, is a cell organelle that helps process and package proteins and lipid molecules, especially proteins destined to be exported from the cell.
Educational Resources
A germ line is the sex cells (eggs and sperm) that are used by sexually reproducing organisms to pass on genes from generation to generation.
Educational Resources
Endoplasmic reticulum is a network of membranes inside a cell through which proteins and other molecules move.
Educational Resources
A cell cycle is a series of events that takes place in a cell as it grows and divides.
Staff
Dr. Sharon Milgram is an adjunct investigator in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Fact Sheets
A transcriptome is a collection of all the gene readouts present in a cell.
News Release
NHGRI researchers, collaborators at the University of California (UC) San Diego, UC Davis and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine lay out a new framework for comparing dog-to-human aging, one that uses epigenetics as a biological marker to better understand the aging process.
Educational Resources
Messenger RNA (abbreviated mRNA) is a type of single-stranded RNA involved in protein synthesis.
Educational Resources
A chromatid is one of two identical halves of a replicated chromosome.
Educational Resources
Mitochondria are membrane-bound cell organelles (mitochondrion, singular) that generate most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell's biochemical reactions.