Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases ...

Our cells harbor a DNA detector termed cGAS to inform the immune system of viral and bacterial infections, cell death, as ...

Glioblastoma stem cells with fluorescent labeling for prion protein (red), CD44 protein (green), and cell nucleus (blue) ...

HIV inserts its genes into the host cell's nucleus in an unusual way. It doesn't import its RNA genetic material piecemeal. Instead, it stuffs its whole wedge-shaped capsid—basically the whole ...