In this article, you’ll learn how eukaryotic cells operate, providing a solid foundation for understanding how life functions ...

Until recently, it was thought that all eukaryotic cells contained mitochondria. However, researchers have since identified some microbial eukaryotes that have lost these organelles over evolutionary ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Hyperspectral imaging has provided an insight into how cells organize and prioritize organelle growth.

Mitochondria are special little organelles that not only generate power for the cell but also carry their own little genomes and make their own proteins with their own ribosomes. Those features make ...

The new study stakes out a more moderate position, suggesting that beyond a critical cell volume, mitochondria and perhaps other features of modern eukaryotic cells would have been necessary to ...

That, to him, argues against a gradual evolution of the eukaryotic cell. In fact, some evidence suggests that key eukaryotic features were acquired all at once, rather than gradually.

During this time, some of the defining characteristics of modern eukaryotic cells—the nucleus, mitochondria, cytoskeleton, cell membrane, and chloroplasts, among others—made their debut. These ...

Until recently, it was thought that all eukaryotic cells contained mitochondria. However, researchers have since identified some microbial eukaryotes that have lost these organelles over evolutionary ...