But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and cell. Like a virus, this new organism ‘Sukunaarchaeum mirabile’ outsources some functions to its host, but can still ...

The cells in your ears aren’t the only ones listening: recent research suggests that crucial cells throughout the body may respond to audible sound. Experiments described in Communications Biology ...

They’ve discovered a previously unknown organelle – that is, a specialized structure that performs some specific function – inside human cells. The team named it the “hemifusome”, and in a paper ...