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

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

The film explores the structure and function of plant and animal cells using a microscope. It begins with observing onion cells, highlighting their components such as the cell wall, nucleus, and ...

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

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

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases ...

Under conditions of glucolipotoxicity, ChREBPα goes into the nucleus and starts making too much of ChREBPβ, which acts to disable and even kill the patient's beta cells. By using a molecular ...