Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the "pacemaker" controlling yeast cell division lies inside the ...

In a study that may guide drug design, researchers find organelles encounter varying levels of resistance, depending on their size and speed, as they move through a cell's cytoplasm.

Comparative Analysis of Viscosity of Complex Liquids and Cytoplasm of Mammalian Cells at the Nanoscale. Nano Letters , 2011; 110422133753083 DOI: 10.1021/nl2008218 Cite This Page : ...

ABOVE: Color photograph of the retina of a patient with atrophic macular degeneration JAYAKRISHNA AMBATI. O ver the past decade, there have been scattered reports of mammalian cells’ own DNA being ...

Back in 2018, the lab of Christine Mayr, MD, PhD, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) introduced the world to a key cellular component that had been hiding in plain sight.

The cytoplasm is the largest part of the cell by volume and hence its rheology sets the rate at which cellular shape changes can occur. Recent experimental evidence suggests that cytoplasmic ...

Different classes of RNA molecules are synthesized in the eukaryotic nucleus and are exported through nuclear pore complexes to the cytoplasm by mobile export receptors. Small RNAs follow ...

Earlier this year, Ambati’s team uncovered an important clue. Surprisingly, in cultured human retinal pigmented epithelium cells, they found that DNA copies of Alu can occur in the cell cytoplasm—in ...

Inching along, a DNA-preserving mechanism can ultimately defeat the transposon, a danger that jumps. This mechanism is part of a larger process through which tiny pieces of RNA protect ...

Worn-out proteins, malfunctioning organelles, invading microorganisms: all are swept up by tiny internal "vacuum cleaners" that keep a living cell healthy. If the process, called autophagy, can be ...