After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025 ...

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

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Membrane lipids are lipids involved in forming the structure of biological membranes – both the cell membrane and intracellular membranes – and in membrane function, namely ...

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A newly found organelle, the hemifusome, helps manage cellular recycling. It may play a role in inherited diseases and open paths to new therapies. Scientists have identified a previously unknown ...

Cells somehow evolved from primordial chemistry and their emergence depended on the co-evolution of the cytoplasm, a genetic system and the cell membrane.