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Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of ...

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 ...

Hydra are a stand-out example of the phenomenon, but they aren’t necessarily unique in their resistance to time. A handful of ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in ...

During this phase, the jellyfish ... can transform all of its existing cells into a younger state. This process, known as transdifferentiation, allows it to cycle back to the beginning of its ...

It is these events that determine whether the cell cycle will go forward or remain stalled between stages. Here we focus ... could be transferred from animal to animal in cell-free extracts.

The classic question, “What came first, the egg or the chicken?” has intrigued philosophers and scientists for centuries. A ...

Swallows infected with parasites move less and in smaller ranges than healthy ones – with detrimental effects on their ...

Previously, it was believed that chloroplasts—light-capturing structures essential to plant cells—could not function within animal cells.

Another species, C. perkinsii, turned out to be much more animal-like, relying on open mitosis. Its life cycle involves primarily mononucleate stages, where each cell has a single nucleus.

In social animals like mice, where females have a distinct estrous cycle, efficient reproduction ... raphe nucleus of the midbrain (DRN-ERβ + cells).