Scientists at the Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have discovered something remarkable while studying phosphate transport in fruit fly intestines—a never before seen organelle. Their ...
The p97 protein is one of your body's best garbage disposers. It floats around in your cells looking for signals that a protein is past its shelf life and needs to be trashed. Mutations in this protein have been linked to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 7, 2023
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Eukaryotic cells—the ones that make up most life as we know it, including all animals, plants and fungi—are highly structured objects.
General Physics
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Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these bacteria were integrated into the cells in the course of evolution and how they are controlled, ...
Evolution
Dec 7, 2022
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If a fungus has to take a circuitous route to achieve cellular respiration, it lacks the energy to build fruiting bodies.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 3, 2022
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Imperial researchers have programmed bacterial cells to react to changes in light and temperature with the help of synthetic cell machinery.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2022
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Organelles inside cells constantly serve specific functions in the same way that individual departments handle certain tasks in an organization. Cellular processes alter the amount of heat organelles generate, but it is not ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 26, 2022
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A new study from the University of Miami and University of Nebraska-Lincoln has upended decades of doctrine about an enzyme whose mutation or malfunction can trigger fatal diseases early in life. The research team, which ...
Biochemistry
Aug 18, 2022
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Researchers Albert Cairó and Karel Riha of the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) and their colleagues have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that is responsible for reprogramming gene expression in ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 4, 2022
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Proteins usually undergo modifications during or after their synthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi apparatus network inside eukaryotic cells. One such modification is glycosylation, whereby sugars, such as ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 25, 2022
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