ABOVE: Researchers have identified a nitrogen-fixing organelle known as a nitroplast. Here, it is seen at the opposite end of ...

Cells, the basic building blocks of plants and organisms, are divided into many small, specialized compartments by membranes. Cellular materials and molecules are constantly exchanged between these ...

but only plant cells have a cell wall, vacuole and chloroplasts. We used jelly to create an easy plant cell model showing the main features of a plant cell. See our animal cell model post for more ...

Researchers have found that cellular droplets function in more diverse ways than previously known. The ability to fission ...

Once known only to those ... make energy available). Plant cells also contain chloroplasts, the sites of photosynthesis. These complex cells evolved from much simpler, ancient forms of life that came ...

In human, animal, and plant cells, calcium ions play a crucial role as messengers. They support the regulation of essential ...

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The apicoplast is an organelle essential for the synthesis of ... and proteomic experiments indicated that the compound interferes not only with lipid metabolism but also with vesicular ...

Luca Morelli, the study's first author, pointed out that this method not only boosts the amount of beta-carotene ... which is the fluid surrounding the organelles inside plant cells. By using both ...

The researchers report in the journal Science this week that MED6-189 works by targeting and disrupting not only the apicoplast, an organelle found in P. falciparum cells, but also the ... from the ...

The researchers report today (September 26) in the journal Science that MED6-189 works by targeting and disrupting not only the apicoplast, an organelle found in P. falciparum cells, but also ... from ...