While most cyanobacteria find themselves suffocated by high levels of carbon, Chunkus and its lighter cousin devour it, sequestering carbon within tiny "storage granules" inside their cells.

As a result, histamine in storage granules is released extracellularly, which causes strong systemic vasodilation (hypotension), airway constriction (dyspnea), generalized wheals with itching, and ...

Acidocalcisomes are related to organelles previously named volutin or metachromatic granules, and polyphosphate vacuoles, which were thought to function as storage granules.

With his colleagues, Parker says he is developing a model in which P-bodies are the ancestors of many of the other mRNA storage granules "as a fundamental part of how cells control their genes." ...