Nuclear pore complexes are the guardians of the human genome that is packaged into the nucleus of all cells. They form selective channels through the envelope of the nucleus and connect its ...

Histones are a family of basic proteins that associate with DNA in the nucleus and help condense it into chromatin. Nuclear DNA does not appear in free linear strands; it is highly condensed and ...

But there is a bit of a problem, in that the two descriptions of the nucleus of an atom don't sit too well together.