Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Robertson, Sally. (2019, June 20). Inflating cells to analyze organelle structure and function.

It has recently become clear just how important membraneless organelles are for cells. Now biochemists at ETH Zurich have discovered a novel mechanism that regulates the formation of these organelles.

The peripheral endoplasmic reticulum (ER) forms a continuous, dynamic network of tubules that plays an important role in protein transport and quality control, cellular signaling, and stress response.

Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

Like AI, cells change and learn from experience, while unlike computer chips they arrive naturally preprogrammed ...

With a new method, researchers have captured a high-resolution metabolic “map” of how cells orchestrate glucose processing, ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to ...

Researchers report February 29 in the journal Cell Reports that the Golgi ribbon, an organelle structure previously thought to be exclusive to vertebrates, is also present in animal taxa ...

Although known since the 1830s as a round, dark spot in a cell's nucleus, only recently has the nucleolus gotten its full due. Scientists, including research conducted by the lab of Clifford ...

The pig’s heart was graying rapidly, so McCully decided to try it. He loaded a syringe with the extracted mitochondria and ...