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 ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

Van Andel Institute scientists have developed an improved technique to comprehensively profile DNA methylation in single ...

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 ...

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) ...