The laboratory of Ege Kavalali, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, published a paper in Nature ...

Unlike plant cells, fungal cells have cell walls made of chitin instead of cellulose. They lack chloroplasts, meaning they do not perform photosynthesis. Instead, fungi absorb nutrients from their ...

At the heart of our cells, a previously unknown structure has just been identified, shedding new light on essential ...

A previously unknown structure discovered in our cells could pave the way toward new treatments for various genetic disorders ...

Researchers are making ever more sophisticated mini organs in the lab — and now they can grow their own blood vessels. The ...

A group of scientists from Iowa State University doing research under a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant reports that they have discovered a new and different spindle structure during cell ...

A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – an event so rare that there are only three other known cases ...

For example, the mitochondrion would end up in the wrong place—inside the endoplasmic reticulum, ... The structures persist in the cell for a long time.

“The structure of the brain at the cellular level appears to be near a phase transition,” said Northwestern’s Helen Ansell, the paper’s first author. “An everyday example of this is when ice melts ...