A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

Lipids are difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, a Dresden-based team led by ...

Mitochondria are cellular organelles that play an important role in making ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the molecular fuel ...

Primary cilia play a powerful role in how cells sense their surroundings. They help guide embryo development and ensure ...

Macrophages are part of the immune system's frontline; they attack and "eat" invaders to protect surrounding cells. They, ...

A new study has revealed how epithelial cells respond to the curvature of tissue gaps by changing the shape of an internal organelle, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), to support different modes of ...

Scientists have uncovered new details about how mitochondrial proteins get delivered from ribosomes in the cytosol.

Mitochondrial dysfunctions are associated with a variety of pathologies, and the onset and progression of disease are ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines what type of cell it ...

A type of brain cell that plays a vital role in maintaining neural networks and repairing injuries lies at the core of a ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka found that macrophages use microautophagy, mediated by Rab32-positive ...