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

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

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

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

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

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

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

One hypothesis is that the DNA loops could determine which genes are switched on in the cell. Inside a nucleus, chromosomes jumble together like a game of Twister. This can bring regulatory elements, ...

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

In a novel theory, scientists at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute propose a unifying explanation for the molecular chaos driving Alzheimer's disease. The condition causes widespread ...

During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to the separation of the duplicated genetic material carried in the nucleus. Mitosis is conventionally divided into five stages known as prophase ...