When the cell's recycling stations, the lysosomes, start leaking, it can become dangerous. Toxic waste risks spreading and ...

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play a role in how cells communicate and sense their surroundings.

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Inside every living cell, proteins and membranes are in constant motion, reshaping, colliding, and flexing as they keep an ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

While our cells are performing some important, basic functions, they can generate compounds known as reactive oxygen species ...