Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Specialized compartments within cells carry out specific functions. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...

Hyperspectral imaging has provided an insight into how cells organize and prioritize organelle growth. As cells grow, their organelles also need to grow. But do all the organelles grow at the same ...

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered using cryo-electron tomography, which literally freezes them in time, and ...

In the past several years, Rockefeller University's Kivanç Birsoy and his team in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and ...

How does the ER prevent misfolded proteins? Researchers identify the SLC33A1 transporter as a critical glutathione regulator ...

In biology you must have come across the two types of cells, the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. These two are the most ...

As we age, stem cells responsible for maintaining our blood and immune systems gradually lose their resilience, but why this happens has remained unclear. A novel study from Japan and the US turns the ...

Rockefeller researchers previously discovered several new important tasks that the antioxidant glutathione manages throughout the body. Now they’ve found that glutathione maintains the smooth ...