Archaea form one of the three domains of life; the others are bacteria and eukaryotes. Eukaryotic chromosomes are organized into arrays of compact domain structures called TADs. Here the authors ...

The journey to Earth's vibrant colours began over 600 million years ago with the evolution of vision. Fast-forward to today, ...

Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast and human epithelial, breast and breast cancer cells in Minecraft, a video ...

Biofilms are an important, but incompletely understood, form of growth and survival for many bacteria. Recent evidence reveals that biofilms are structurally complex, dynamic systems that have ...

In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive organelles, such as micro-compartments found in some bacteria, help organize cellular processes by concentrating ...

Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial endosymbiont still preserve distinct genes and are known for their ability to ...

Mitochondria organelles came from primordial bacterial endosymbionts and still preserve distinct genes for important functions like making ATP. To speed the emerging therapeutic research into the ...

An emerging area of research is the evolutionarily conserved transfer of mitochondria between cells. Yet researchers have lacked unique and universally accepted terms and practices to describe such ...

VAP proteins, which mediate ER interactions with other organelles, are known to be co-opted by other pathogens during infection. During infection by R. parkeri, VAP proteins were recruited to the ...

which mediate ER interactions with other organelles, are known to be co-opted by other pathogens during infection. During infection by R. parkeri, VAP proteins were recruited to the bacteria; when ...

A team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.