Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz first became intrigued by malaria when he was a young boy in South Africa. His father, who scouted ...

Once a single-celled plankton divides into two, an internal structure called a vacuole, a kind of flexible water tank, ...

How then does the tonoplast increase its surface area so that the vacuole can quickly expand (Figure 2)? Scientists still know very little about this dynamic process, and they are actively ...

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I had no cause to get a cast as a kid ― but I have to admit I longed for the glamour of ...

Some vacuoles have specialized functions, and plant cells can have more than one type of vacuole. Vacuoles are related to lysosomes and share some functions with these structures; for instance ...

After a single-celled plankton divides into two, an internal structure called a vacuole filters in freshwater. This causes the two new cells to massively grow in size. The two daughter cells that ...

There are many factors that go into the pungency of an onion, including the type of onion, its temperature and age. But just ...

Inter-organelle communication via the formation of membrane contact sites (MCS) is essential for cell homeostasis. Bacterial pathogens residing in membrane bound vacuoles have exploited this ...

The bound, nontoxic form of cadmium then gets dumped into a cell vacuole, a sort of bubble inside a cell that cordons off a section and holds the toxins at bay. The mutant plants lacked the peptides ...

A cell wall, which keeps everything together, cell membrane, which surrounds the cytoplasm, vacuole, the space within the cytoplasm which contains the fluids and nutrients, and a nucleus ...

Once a single-celled plankton divides into two, an internal structure called a vacuole, a kind of flexible water tank, filters in fresh water, causing the two new cells to massively grow in size.