organelles
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They also contain organelles, which are specialized structures inside the cell.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
"Watching these tiny organelles in the nucleus dissolve, consistently across every cell line and every flu strain we tested, told us this isn't a side effect of infection -- it might be a strategy,"
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
More work is also needed to understand the role of Golgi stress when all of the organelles in a cell are under stress because of the tumor microenvironment.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
They transport enzymes to organelles called lysosomes to help break down other molecules.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024
If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles?
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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