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An interview with electrical engineer Tomás Palacios of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is presented. Palacios discusses his concept for ubiquitous electronics. He explains the idea to fabricate simple building blocks made of two-dimensional (2D) materials on a silicon wafer and the research's goal to develop artificial organelles with specific functionality.

The article focuses on the highly-organized internal organization and architecture observed in microbial cells despite the lacking organelles. It relates previous studies on the complex structure of bacterial cells and the advances in technology that helped researchers to explore on bacterial subcellular organization, such as the improved spatial resolution in microscopes. Researchers are focusing on subcellular organization vulnerability to find ways to destroy pathogenic bacteria.

Focuses on the advancement in microscopy research. Significance of the improvement in clarity; Citation of the commercial availability of 4Pi-confocal microscope; Application of instrument in the mapping of cellular organelles and the structure of the nucleus; Use of bioluminescent imaging in studying the movement and activity of oncogenes within cells; Utility of fluorescence resonance energy transfer for studying protein interactions in living cells at nanometer resolution. INSET: Mind if I Light Up?.

The article reports watching of heme dynamics in Caenorhabditis elegans worms in real time using transient absorption (TA) microscopy. Topics discussed includes using laser beams to measure chromophore, lysosomal-related organelles, and noninvasive method to differentiate various states of heme, which includes oxidised and reduced.

The article focuses on a research which uses cryo-electron microscopy in taking two new snapshots of the spliceosome, the enormous protein as well as RNA machinery responsible for the removal segments of messenger RNA called introns prior to protein production. It also discusses charged surface patches on two proteins.

The article discusses how cells have membrane-bound compartments called organelles that allows biochemical processes to proceed interference from cell chemistry and mentions how scientists have made movies in cells showing simultaneous interactions of organelles. Topics include how organelles move around in cells and bump into each other to transfer biomolecules, movies on organelles such as lysosomes, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum shown in the movie.

The article discusses a study conducted by researchers at the Institute for Biological Studies on how cell mitochondria reboot themselves.

The article discusses a study by researcher John A. G. Briggs and team published in the periodical "Science" in 2015, that analyzed the structure of the coating called coat protein 1 (COPi) present on vesicles that transport cellular material from Golgi apparatus to endoplasmic reticulum.

The article focuses on a research led by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and colleagues, which was published in the journal "Science," which reveals the discovery of a massive 3-megadalton biological machine using cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) on the yeast mitochondrial ribosome's large subunit. Topics discussed include the occurrence of ribosome in eukaryotic mitochondria, offers atomic glimpse of a mitochondrial ribosome and essential in energy making oxidative phosphorylation system.

The article provides information on how proteins bind with ribosomal RNA to assemble the S ribosome.

Focuses on chemical methods in trapping cells and organelles. Encapsulation of individual cells or subcellular components in aqueous droplets surrounded by an immiscible phase in a microfluidic device; Performance of assays or other chemical actions.

Focuses on the newly discovered type of cell-to-cell communication by researchers in Sweden and Norway. Development of artificial systems that demonstrate similar cell-to-cell transport; Observation that thin tubes between cells transport organelles but block small molecules; Illustration of a tunneling nanotube between cultured rat cells in a scanning electron micrographs that reveal a continuous phospholipid bilayer at cell junctions.