Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...

"Longevity science" is on the come up—and "mitochondria" appears to be its newest mascot. The cell's energy-producing center ...

Researchers identified PEX38 as essential for glycosome formation in trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas ...

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...

The pathogens that cause tropical diseases rely on an essential protein that is absent from all other organism. This ...

Unique metabolic architectureCells have to break down sugar to produce energy. In most organisms, this process of glycolysis takes place in the ...

A Cell Death & Disease review synthesizes preclinical evidence that circular RNAs regulate adipose browning and metabolic pathways through microRNA interactions, protein binding, and organelle-linked ...

A recent study by the University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn and the University of Freiburg shows that the ...

Researchers in Japan have identified a striking new way immune cells strip DNA out of dying neighbors, a process they call ...

The powerhouse of the cells – known as mitochondria – appear to be able to influence the number of lipid droplets in the cell. A mechanism that is ...

The powerhouse of the cells – known as mitochondria – appear to be able to influence the number of lipid droplets in the cell ...

Under stress, animal cells pair inactive ribosomes into RNA-linked disomes. A ribosomal RNA “kissing loop” joins them, ...