Bacteria are amongst the simplest of organisms – they are made of single cells. Their cell structure is simpler than the cells of animals, plants and fungi.

New research, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uncovers the unique dynamics governing the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)’s evolution and addresses the long-standing ...

In a healthy cell, this can be a lifesaver: say, when an immune cell is speeding to the site of an infection. But filopodia can also wreak havoc: metastatic cancer cells use them to invade new regions ...

Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type ... Sewage treatment with anammox. Science 328, 702–703 (2010) doi:10.1126/science.

Most prokaryotes are small, single-celled organisms that have a relatively simple structure. Prokaryotic cells are surrounded by a plasma membrane, but they have no internal membrane-bound ...

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The ...