mitochondria, Tag

This post reports on an unpaywalled paper in the journal "Virus Research" from November last year, offering support for this Viral Eukaryogenesis hypothesis.

Guest post by John Tillman In 1962 paper, Roger Stanier and C. B. van Niel established the division of cellular organization into prokaryotes and eukaryotes, defining prokaryotes as those organisms, such as bacteria, which...

Here’s a tantalizing bit of gene research. Scientists were able to switch off a central gene in the nucleus of a mouse cell. That in turn meant the mouse’s mitochondria started failing (I’m going to be talking...

Photo via koya979 / Shutterstock The Food and Drug Administration is weighing the benefits of a bold new technique that produces embryos with DNA from three people...