One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis—a process by which one organism engulfed ...

Scientists found molecular evidence supporting the idea that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and only later evolved to support carbon assimilation in plant cells.

Within the sender cells are nanocontainers—essentially artificial organelles—whose membranes contain special light-sensitive molecules known as molecular motors. These allow the researchers to ...

Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiont | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

By controlling the laboratory conditions in which these cells lived, the researchers ... resemble a more ancient form of the photosynthetic organelles, the new findings suggest that chloroplasts ...

Avoiding the hunger trap and the binge-eating cravings is difficult. Overeating or eating unhealthy foods can often derail ...

Membrane contact sites (MCSs) are specialized regions where the membranes of different organelles come into close proximity, but without actual contacts, ...

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Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae and certain kinds of bacteria convert solar radiation into chemical energy ...

It's obviously an important organelle. How is it being changed or what is its role in T-cells in terms of fighting cancer?" said Nathaniel Oberholtzer, an M.D./Ph.D. student who worked in the lab ...

Researchers from the Structural Biology Brussels group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have uncovered a significant ...

In the biological systems of multicellular animals, a continuous cycle of cellular turnover is facilitated by stem cells, which replace old cells with new progeny through the process known as ...