The movement of genetic materials, such as RNA and ribosomes, from the nucleus to the cytoplasm is a critical component in a cell's ability to make the proteins necessary for essential biological functions.

Diseases and injuries trigger warning signals in our cells.

Researchers at Brown University and Hasbro Children’s Hospital have traced the molecular interactions that allow the protein survivin to escape the nucleus of a breast cancer cell and prolong the cell’s life.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two New York City scientists whose pioneering achievements in understanding how our genes are regulated and expressed have helped medical

Since the mid-1990s, doctors have had the protein Mer in their sights – it coats the outside of cancer cells, transmitting signals inside the cells that aid their uncontrolled growth.