Eukaryotic cells—the ones that make up most life as we know it, including all animals, plants and fungi—are highly structured objects. These cells assemble and maintain their own smaller, internal ...

Plants' ability to sense light and temperature, and their ability to adapt to climate change, hinges on free-forming structures in their cells whose function was, until now, a mystery. Researchers ...

New research may help to explain an intriguing phenomenon inside human cells: how wall-less liquid organelles are able to coexist as separate entities instead of just merging together. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Specialized compartments within cells carry out specific functions. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...

Scientists explore the creation of artificial organelles. Artificial organelles generated from Exosome fusion can function as energy reserves in the damaged tissues. The human body is made of numerous ...

Proteomics techniques have been successfully used to identify the protein components of organelles and large cellular structures. Several strategies have been developed that can be used to separate ...

More than a decade ago, plant geneticists noticed something peculiar when they looked at grafted plants. Where two plants grew together, the cells of each plant showed signs of having picked up ...

For a long time, the contents of cells were thought to be fairly unstructured and chaotic: a mixture of proteins, DNA and a multitude of small metabolic molecules. Although important cellular ...

It was a simple but insightful experiment. At the turn of the 20th century, American biologist Edmund Wilson squashed starfish eggs under a microscope and watched what happened as cellular material ...