New method developed by UTSW researchers removes mysterious organelles from stem cells and embryos to uncover their roles.

Eukaryotic cells form the foundation of complex, multicellular life, including apple trees, mushrooms, fish and humans. Their defining feature is the presence of membrane-bound organelles, ...

In a scientific first, researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Diego, have generated a ...

Even if these organelles could find a way to survive such an attack, they are unlikely to be able to function in the relatively hot environment of an animal cell, where temperatures are typically ...

Plant cells are armored with a stiff cell wall, so “my image of a plant cell was the cytoplasm sitting in a cage, and nobody goes anywhere,” Maliga said. The genetic evidence for transfers posed a ...

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

There are many different kinds of membranes in a cell. Learn how they subdivide sections of a cell and how proteins in these membranes are gatekeepers for what goes in and what comes out.

The typical animal cell measures about 10 microns, or 0.001 centimeters, in diameter.Which is unsurprising—cells are small! that's sort of the point!—and, at the same time, curious. Animals ...

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and ...