Membrane-bound organelles were the textbook standard of how scientists thought cells were organized until they realized in the mid-2000s that some organelles don't need to be wrapped in a membrane.

Life as we know it — plants, animals, fungi, even you and me — depends on something that happened more than 2 billion years ...

The origin of these microtubules has been unclear -- until now. In a newly published article in Cell , the ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure.

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The 'cell of origin' of the second most common lung cancer and the way that it becomes dominant in the lung have been discovered, in a new study in mice and humans from researchers at UCL, the ...

The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner, $32.50 In the summer of 1960, doctors extracted “crimson sludge” from 6-year-old Barbara Lowry’s bones and gave it to her twin. That ...

Reference Wollweber F, Xu J, et al. Microtubules in Asgard archaea, Cell, published online March 21 2025, DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2025.02.027 ...