Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea of mitochondria being little batteries with a built-in charger, about as ...

Chinese scientists have discovered in samples from the Tiangong space station a previously unknown strain of bacteria that ...

Scientists have caught the intricate dance of cardiac cells coming together to build a heart, in a mesmerizing new timelapse taken during the development of a mouse embryo. The images were captured ...

The reported cryo-EM imaging of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in liposomes as opposed to nanodiscs has both broad implications and contributes valuable methodological advances to the ...

Scientists identify a new CARF effector, Cat1, with a complex structure that depletes a key metabolite, halting viral ...

Researchers Find Gene Activator Complex for Exchange of Nutrients Between Plants and Fungi Most land plants form mutually beneficial symbioses with fungi. The plant and the fungus exchange vital ...

Regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with lower sperm count, motility, and increased DNA damage, ...