I T IS HARD to overstate the importance of sleep. Regular hours of rest offer organisms of all sizes a chance to consolidate ...

Some mushrooms are sturdier than others, but it isn’t necessarily because of their chemistry – it’s how the filaments that ...

A further understanding of the organelle could pave the way for better treatment of genetic and neurodegenerative diseases.

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the realm of human cell biology. Through the use of cryo-electron ...

A collaborative study from the University of Cologne has uncovered how a key mitochondrial protein, AIFM1 (Apoptosis-Inducing ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell. In the 1960s British biochemists Peter Mitchell and Jennifer Moyle discovered how electrons derived ...

Electron microscopy allows us to visualise exactly how these drugs bind inside the carrier to jam it—a spanner in the works, you could say.

Breakthroughs in microscopy are illuminating organelle interactions, providing critical insights into cellular processes and ...

Electron microscopy studies in guinea pig PDE cells have shown that mitochondria are most densely packed in the cell’s apical portion (39). The functional importance of this localization remains ...

To look at the ribosome-mitochondria phenomenon more closely, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Virginia (UV) used cryo-electron microscopy and ...