One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The findings also offer clues about early animal evolution. Placozoa resemble some of the earliest animals on Earth, which ...

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that combining ...

The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their ...