Stem cells function as a source of new cells to grow or replace specialised tissues. To perform this function, these cells must divide to renew themselves, while some of their descendants ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The ...

In the model, this is the grape. Cell membrane close cell membraneThis surrounds the outside of animal cells and controls what can enter and exit it.: In the model, this is the balloon.

On the other hand, when a male horse is mated to a female donkey, the offspring is a hinny — an incorrigible animal with ... primordial germ cells in mice. PLoS Genetics 3, 1309–1317 (2007 ...

This feat — described in a study published Oct. 3 in the journal Stem Cell Reports ... the function of transplanted retinal ...

Plants have a sophisticated mechanism for monitoring the production of new proteins. The U1 snRNP complex ensures that the ...

What if, as well as car parts and designer furniture, we could print human organs or regenerate human tissue by bioprinting living cells ... reduce the need for animal testing.

We’re all familiar with animals that hibernate in the winter, like bears and groundhogs. There’s ... [+] another class of animals that “estivate”–meaning they enter a state of dormancy ...

Motion Twin, the developer of Dead Cells, has given players an early peek at their next game for Steam Next Fest—a roguelike ...

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...