This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in all eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a ...

Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...

Mitochondria organelles came from primordial bacterial endosymbionts and still preserve distinct genes for important functions like making ATP. To speed the emerging therapeutic research into the ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be responsible for protein trafficking and secretion. In ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be ...

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) and a new-to ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive ... Despite living in complete darkness, this species sequesters chloroplasts – organelles typically used ...