The structural and functional characteristics of mitochondria shape their role as signaling organelles, with far-reaching ...

Researchers from Barcelona's Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the University of Innsbruck have studied the response of cancer cells to being physically squeezed, behavior that could have ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...

"Our new tool allows us to study how changes in mitochondrial abundance and the mitochondrial genome affect cells and organisms," said Jun Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at UT ...

Hyperspectral imaging has provided an insight into how cells organize and prioritize organelle growth. As cells grow, their organelles also need to grow. But do all the organelles grow at the same ...

I always wanted to understand life. What moves us? What allows us to heal and thrive? And what goes wrong when we get sick or when we eventually stop breathing and die? My search for answers to these ...

The inside of a living cell is a surprising patchwork of environments. For example, pH levels can vary dramatically in different organelles, despite them being just a couple hundred nanometers apart.

Over a billion years ago, a single-celled archaean engulfed an overachieving bacterium. The bacterium didn’t perish but instead struck an agreement with its host. For shelter, the bacterium would pay ...

Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t exist. Although they share a lot of similarities, they have quite a few ...

Prokaryotes are ancient, simple forms of life that include bacteria and archaea. These cellular life forms lack membrane-bound organelles. Those organelles, which include the nucleus and the ...

Microscopy image of a developing zebrafish retina, with cell nuclei (blue) and membranes (yellow) shown. Credit: Rana Amini/Campàs Lab New research revealed that cell nuclei, not just cell surfaces, ...