What do cells do when they are “hungry”? Eukaryotic cells cope with starving conditions by eating their own components, a process called autophagy. Aa Aa Aa Normally, when you are hungry you ...

or 'eating' (phagy), of part of the cell's self (auto) from the breakdown of extracellular material (heterophagy). In brief, autophagy is a ubiquitous process in eukaryotic cells that results in ...

Genetic switches could play a role in creating complex eukaryotic genetic circuits for programmed cell-free systems or artificial cells.

Eukaryotic cell DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. Prokaryotic cell DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is found on one or ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...