Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1 or Crm1), seems to play a role in promoting gene transcription, the process that creates RNA ...

Besides the nucleus, two other organelles — the ... Within eukaryotic cells, mitochondria function somewhat like batteries, because they convert energy from one form to another: food nutrients ...

The unexpected discovery may provide scientists with new insights into how cancer develops — and how to combat it.

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria are four cell components that are found ...

One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

Two molecular control factors play a decisive role in what is known as splicing, the cutting and assembly of mature messenger ...