The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host cells’ membranes, as in earlier work, the researchers adjusted the culture ...

The Zhou Lab is interested in understanding how cells that die inside animal bodies are cleared. During an animal's development and adulthood many unwanted cells are eliminated by a process called ...

Nucleus Carries genetic information and controls what happens inside the cell Plant and animal cells Mitochondria Where respiration takes place, releasing energy for the cell Plant and animal ...

Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria are four cell components that are found ...

New biophysics research at the University of Miami adds to our knowledge about the origins of left-right asymmetry in the body.