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 ...

Cell-free systems, which can express an easily detectable protein with a DNA or mRNA template without constraints of living ...

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

This organism, named Candidatus Uabimicrobium helgolandensis, is a single-celled organism that can do things that bacteria were thought to not be able to do, including "eating" other cells like a ...

Asgard archaea emerged as a key piece in the puzzle of how complex life evolved, acting as a potential link between simple archaea and eukaryotes—organisms like plants and animals whose cells contain ...

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 ...

Additional research interests include cell adhesion and signaling in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell systems. Drexel University's Cell Imaging Center supports the department's cell biology research ...