New Discovery Inside Cells May Provide Key to Life

Once scientists noticed strange blob-like features inside a cell for the first time, they started seeing them everywhere.

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Science classes in school were always a struggle for me, especially biology. I just couldn’t grasp or visualize cells, let alone their components, which made the entire subject feel abstract. And, while I logically understood the importance of cells, their smallness made them insignificant in my mind.

However, something shifted or clicked into place since my high school days, and now I marvel at how significant cells are. They’re incredible, and the more we learn about them, the more impressive they become. Scientists even believe cells may hold the answer to how life forms. Yet, even with our advanced technology, such a mystery remains just that, but a recent discovery may bring us closer to an answer.

Previous Understanding of a Cell

I didn’t, but you may remember learning about organelles in biology class. They’re the tiny structures within a cell that each perform a specific task.

Kinda like how we have a heart, lungs, and other organs that do specific functions; cells have about a dozen organelles like a nucleus that stores our DNA…