For the first time, researchers have directly visualized how newly formed cellular organelles leave the endoplasmic reticulum ...

Apart from organelle signaling, the study also found that nutrient availability played a role in tissue immunity. Specifically, Flcn modulates the activity of transcription factor EB (Tfeb). Flcn–Tfeb ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body.

Researchers discovered a new, still-unnamed organelle that plays a role in bone metastasis and is formed via liquid-liquid phase separation -- when liquid blobs of living materials merge into each ...

The record for world's smallest genome has been smashed by a bacterium that lives inside a sap-feeding insect. The microbe is missing almost half of the genes thought to be essential for its kind to ...

In recent years scientists have made synthetic versions of key parts of the cell, such as chromosomes and ribosomes. Now researchers have developed the first working artificial prototype of an “organ” ...