One well-known example of this type of organelle is the mitochondrion, which evolved from a bacterium. The working group ...

A recent study by a group of scientists has revealed that a different mechanism is responsible for the formation and maintenance of the cell organelle called endosome that sorts and distributes ...

Scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute have discovered a new organelle. The finding challenges longstanding ideas about cell structure. Many people probably remember cell organelles from high ...

Organelle diversity in cells not only exists between cell types but also individual cells. Studying these differences helps researchers better understand cell function, leading to improved ...

A light microscopy image shows the marine haptophyte algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii with a black arrow pointing to the nitroplast organelle. Credit: Tyler Coale A light microscopy image shows the ...

in which a bacterial cell is permanently taken up by a eukaryotic cell that then uses the symbiote as an organelle. It's thought that in the first case of endosymbiosis, a cell took up another cell ...

Plants arose when a cyanobacterium combined with a complex cell to form the chloroplast, the organelle that carries out photosynthesis. And around 60 million years ago, another cyanobacterium ...

It’s time to welcome a new type of cell to the club of living things that ... However, the line between symbiont and organelle can be fuzzy. Zehr and colleagues set out to better understand ...