Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

Exocytosis, the fusion of secretory vesicles with the plasma membrane to allow release of the contents of the vesicles into the extracellular environment, and endocytosis, the internalization of ...

In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed ...

Experimental manipulations of living cells that disrupt the interactions of amphiphysin with either dynamin or clathrin and AP-2 markedly inhibit clathrin-mediated endocytosis 3, 17, 18.

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, ...

Johns Hopkins researchers identify energy-generating waves on cancer cell membranes, revealing potential targets for slowing ...

Human eggs are some of the most patient cells in the body, lying dormant for decades until needed. A study published in The EMBO Journal shows that the cells deliberately slow the activity of their ...

A research team led by Professor Takuya Yamamoto (Department of Life Science Frontiers) and Professor Yasuhiro Yamada at the University of Tokyo has developed a novel in vivo system that reveals how ...

With intensifying global warming and climate change, drought has become a major threat to global agriculture, impacting crop ...

Antibody–siRNA conjugates (ARCs) are a type of promising drug modalities for cancer therapy. However, initial reports of ARCs present the gene knockdown effect only in limited tissues (e.g., muscles) ...