Autophagy is the process by which cells digest and renew their internal structures, recycling damaged or malfunctioning proteins and organelles. By reusing these basic molecules, the cell gains the ...

Nearly all animal cells contain a nucleus. Plants produce food through photosynthesis. Most of this process takes place in an organelle unique to plant cells, called the chloroplast. Students can ...

Unlike prokaryotes, eukaryotic cells also possess internal membranes that encase their organelles and control ... for about 20 percent of the lipids in animal cell plasma membranes.

Eukaryotic cells containing mitochondria then engulfed photosynthetic prokaryotes, which evolved to become specialized chloroplast organelles ... them distinct from animal cells.

Organoids provide effective alternatives to animal testing ... for organ replacement. Organelle-level observation of 3D ...

To this end, scientists are creating lipid-based synthetic doppelgängers of cells and organelles to ask fundamental questions about biology. Oskar Staufer, a biophysicist at the Leibniz Institute for ...

Nearly all animal cells contain a nucleus. Plants produce food through photosynthesis. Most of this process takes place in an organelle unique to plant cells, called the chloroplast. Students can ...