During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells communicate with one another during this process through cell-surface ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

They’ve discovered a previously unknown organelle – that is, a specialized structure that performs some specific function – inside human cells. The team named it the “hemifusome”, and in a paper ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

The advance was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the UC San Diego Materials ...