"Our findings also hint at a wealth of intriguing physics that may have played key functional roles along the way to modern cells." ...

The first cell phone was created in 1973. Since then, pretty much everything about it has drastically changed. Here's where "cell" phones originated from and where they may go in the future.

Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

These mitochondria are called hydrogenosomes and allow the cell to gain about 4 mol of ATP ... There are currently two main, competing theories about the origin of mitochondria.

after the origin of life itself. —Daniel Mills, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München During this time, some of the defining characteristics of modern eukaryotic cells—the nucleus, mitochondria, ...

Successful test in breast cancer patients: the active agent digoxin, a cardiac medication, dissolves clusters of circulating breast cancer cells in the blood, thus reducing the risk of metastases ...

At some point, a eukaryotic cell engulfed an aerobic prokaryote, which then formed an endosymbiotic relationship with the host eukaryote, gradually developing into a mitochondrion. Eukaryotic ...