New research, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uncovers the unique dynamics governing the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)’s evolution and addresses the long-standing ...

In addition to the nucleus, eukaryotic cells may contain several other types of organelles, which may include mitochondria, chloroplasts, the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus ...

In their current project, the team goes one step further ... This approach allows the researchers to simulate cells with cell organelles, creating a form of highly simplified synthetic cell ...

The primary cilium has gone from being an oddity, with no known function, to an organelle that is at the center of our understanding of both fundamental cell sensory processes and a variety of ...

Lipid droplets (LDs) are the fat storage organelles of the cell, and their dysfunction is linked to obesity, diabetes, lipodystrophy, and neurological disorders. To fulfill their numerous metabolic ...

However, microglia and their organelles have been difficult to study because existing stem cell and animal models ... who began this project as a postdoctoral researcher in Jaenisch's lab, have ...