However, microglia and their organelles have been difficult to ... these findings are consistent with research that suggests cancer cells use quinolinic acid to fuel their growth.

Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat ...

CD8 + T cells are vital in defending against infections and cancer while promoting tissue ... cell formation depends on processes in cellular organelles called mitochondria. Additionally ...

Mitochondria, the organelles in question, are best known as power packs—places where glucose molecules are disassembled to ...

Three’s a crowd More than a century ago, the German biologist Theodor Boveri observed that cancer cells often had extra centrosomes, organelles essential for the segregation of chromosomes during ...

New imaging tech reveals living cell processes, enhancing understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative & metabolic diseases for ...

Kanazawa University, report in Nature Communications on how the targeted suppression of lysosome function may lead to brain ...

Published today in Nature, a new study demonstrates how some cancer cells use the protein voltage ... central role that mitochondria, cellular organelles involved in energy production, play ...

Kanazawa University, report in Nature Communications how the targeted suppression of lysosome function may lead to brain ...

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 ...

How an organelle evolves Date: March 19, 2025 Source: Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Summary: Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host ...

Eukaryotic cells contain a large number of functional sub-units, so-called organelles. They perform important functions within the cell. Some organelles were independent, single-celled organisms ...