Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution. Biologists are now examining the way in which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...