Cajal body
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Cajal bodies, also coiled bodies, are spherical nuclear bodies of 0.3–1.0 μm in diameter found in the nucleus of proliferative cells like embryonic cells and tumor cells, or metabolically active cells
Nuclei of mouse cells (blue) containing Cajal bodies (green) visualized by fusion of p80/Coilin protein to GFP
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiol
Cajal body
…cells, or metabolically active cells like neurons. CBs are membrane-less organelles and largely consist of proteins and RNA. They were first reported by Santiago Ramón y Cajal in 1903, who called them nucleolar accessory bodies due to their association with the nucleoli in neuronal cells. They were rediscovered with the use…
Ramón y Cajal in 1899.
Ramón y Cajal, captain in the Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1874
Self-portrait as a student, 1870s
J. Harley Williams called Cajal the “Don Quixote of the microscope”.