Welcome to The Organelle, your source for new information in cell biology, specializing in organelles. The past decade has been revolutionary as far as science goes, and the cell has been no exception. In fact, just a couple weeks ago, Radboud University in Nijmegen reported creating the first plastic cell with organelles that functioned, carrying out steps of a chemical reaction in sequence as they might in a biological cell. Of course, what makes organelles so useful to cells is that they can divide chemical reactions into strategic steps. Other posts should be more timely, but this is an example of what I would like to talk about!