Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

Researchers led by Maike Sander, Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center, have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas.

Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to ...

The human genome is broadly classified into the genome residing in the cell nucleus (nuclear DNA) and the genome residing in ...

A team of scientists has answered a long-standing question in cell biology, uncovering how the cell's main energy currency, ATP, is transported into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Disrupted energy ...

Mitochondria turn the food we eat into the energy our cells can use. But when stress hijacks the process they use to maintain ...

Researchers from the lab led by Prof. Joris De Wit (VIB-KU Leuven) have discovered an important clue to how connections ...

Blocking Mitch, a protein that regulates energy control, prevents fat from accumulating in human cells. About a decade ago, a ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

Researchers from the lab led by Prof. Joris De Wit (VIB-KU Leuven) have discovered an important clue to how connections ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

A research team has revealed the molecular steps that led to the emergence of this plant-specific vacuolar transport system. Their work shows that the acquisition of this pathway was driven by the ...