Plasmodesmata are only present in plant and algae cells and are not present in animal cells. Lysosomes are membrane-bound ...

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

Mitochondria transplantation shows promise in treating heart, brain, and organ damage, sparking new research and potential ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

Cells are the fundamental, structural, and functional units of living organisms. Cells are composed of cytoplasm containing various organelles, such as the nucleus, in which the DNA is stored, or ...

Studying how cells work inside a living body is one of the most powerful ways to understand health and disease. However, looking deep inside live tissue is extremely challenging, especially when ...

Sacoglossan sea slugs, discreet inhabitants of coral reefs, hide an astonishing secret. Unlike other animals, they can "steal" chloroplasts from the algae they consume and use them to ...

Scientists in the lab of chemical engineer Monther Abu-Remaileh are uncovering the cellular functions that go awry in ...

Contrary to long-standing assumptions, human egg cells stay pristine for decades not by ramping up waste disposal, but by ...

In this study, researcher developed a new imaging approach that combines two powerful techniques to solve this problem. First ...

It was the kind of radical reproductive technology that ordinarily might make a conservative Pentecostal politician deeply ...