EDMONTON – University of Alberta researchers are rewriting the textbooks with a discovery that alters science’s understanding of one of the cell’s most basic processes. The finding could shed new ...

Proteins are considered the hardest-working components of cells, influencing everything from structure to function — so cell biologists try to determine their numbers and any changes in the count. The ...

While prokaryotic cells do not have membrane-bound structures, they do have distinct cellular regions (Figure 1). In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive ...