nucleus

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The concept behind MultiQ-IT emerged from long-term research on how molecules move in and out of a cell's nucleus through structures known as nuclear pore complexes.

From Science Daily

"Targeting the brain with drugs is tricky because they act on the entire brain and not a selected region such as the parafacial nucleus," says Paton.

From Science Daily

Others stayed with us a day or a week, but these seven remained, the nucleus of our happy household.

From Literature

All the matter around us -- including the protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus of atoms -- are made of baryons.

From Barron's

Gold cannot form until certain unstable atomic nuclei break apart.

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