Scientists have observed a type of cell division in a prehistoric unicellular organism that resembles the embryonic development seen in animal embryos, hinting that embryonic processes may have ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor ... In fact, each gene in cellular DNA contains the code for a unique protein structure. Not only are these proteins assembled ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Around the same time, researchers James Watson and Francis Crick were pursuing a definitive model for the stable structure of DNA inside cell nuclei. Watson and Crick ultimately used Franklin's ...

Each of these helps maintain cell structure and function throughout interphase and is essential as the cell progresses through the cell cycle. To support students’ understanding of the cytoskeleton, a ...

Can you fill in the blanks to complete the table? Cell structure Description Function Cell type Cell wall Freely permeable layer surrounding cell membrane. The cell wall of plant cells is made ...

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have made a major discovery in how human ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...

It bonds with its silicon neighbor atoms, but one electron is not involved in bonding. Instead, it is free to move inside the silicon structure. A solar cell consists of a layer of p-type silicon ...

It feels like the Splinter Cell remake has been on its way for a ... with Chaos Theory being the first to switch things up with a more open structure. It primarily involved tight corridors ...

Within every cell (except red blood cells) is a nucleus -- a sphere-like structure separated from the rest of the cell by a membrane. The nucleus acts as the cell's control center, regulating its ...