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 ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

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 ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

Department of Neurobiology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel ...