Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases ...

One hypothesis is that the DNA loops could determine which genes are switched on in the cell. Inside a nucleus, chromosomes jumble together like a game of Twister. This can bring regulatory elements, ...

During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to the separation of the duplicated genetic material carried in the nucleus. Mitosis is conventionally divided into five stages known as prophase ...

Our cells harbor a DNA detector termed cGAS to inform the immune system of viral and bacterial infections, cell death, as ...

A research led by Sergio P. Acebrón, Researcher Ikerbasque at the UPV/EHU, develops a key tool to visualize the immune response to abnormal DNA, opening new avenues for the treatment of diseases.