By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, ...

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

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 ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

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.

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 ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Inside a eukaryotic cell are self-contained, membrane-bound bundles that perform special functions, called organelles. All eukaryotic cells — animal, plant, fungus or protist — have a nucleus that ...

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 ...

Mitochondria are an essential part of the complex machinery inside eukaryotic cells – the domain of life that includes humans – but a select few have evolved to do without. Image credit ...