“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

Placozoa are among the simplest animals in the world. They were initially discovered living on the walls of aquariums in a ...

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

Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell ...

A research team has recently made a significant discovery about the evolutionary age of different type of cells in a small animal called Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). By using single-cell ...

Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing ...

Research has shed new light on the way malignant cells change their shape and migration techniques to invade different types of tissue. Oregon State University research has shed new light on the way ...

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