Many living organisms are able to regenerate damaged or lost tissue, but why some are particularly good at this and others ...

Your brain is constantly forming new memories, based on experience and repetition. Scientists now know that cells in other ...

In such cells, the plasma membrane is part of an extensive endomembrane system that includes the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the nuclear membrane, the Golgi apparatus, and lysosomes. Membrane ...

Prometaphase is an extremely dynamic part of the cell cycle. Microtubules rapidly assemble and disassemble as they grow out of the centrosomes, seeking out attachment sites at chromosome ...

This is mainly water.: In the model, this is the water. Mitochondria close mitochondriaTiny parts of cells floating in the cytoplasm where energy is released from glucose. The glucose comes from food.

The ageing and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is damaged can spread to other organs, a study suggests. Scientists have shown for the first time that the deterioration of cells ...

An international research team has uncovered a new mechanism crucial to the production of cellular proteins. When this ...