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

The primary cilium has gone from being an oddity, with no known function, to an organelle that is at the center of our understanding of both fundamental cell sensory processes and a variety of ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered how severe COVID-19 can destroy immune cells' ability to repair the lungs, helping explain the lingering effects of long COVID. The ...

Like the plasma membrane, organelle membranes function to keep the inside "in" and the outside "out." This partitioning permits different kinds of biochemical reactions to take place in different ...

The Jokitalo group studies structure-function interplay of organelles in mammalian cells. Our main model organelle is the endoplasmic reticulum. We employ a wide range of basic biological techniques ...

They also saw that UCYN-A divided in synchrony with other organelles, a piece of data that contributed to their determination that UCYN-A was a true organelle. Further evidence that UCYN-A behaves as ...

CMTA funds $90,860 research using AI-driven imaging to track cellular defects in CMT2A, accelerating therapeutic discovery for this axonal ...

One well-known example of this type of organelle is the mitochondrion -- the "powerhouse of the cell" -- which evolved from a bacterium. The working group headed by Professor Nowack at the ...