Bizarre Billion-Year-Old Single Cell Mimics Animal Embryos, Shocking Scientists
Scientists have observed a type of cell division in a prehistoric unicellular organism that resembles the embryonic development seen in animal embryos, hinting that embryonic processes may have ...
Mitochondrial study offers new insights into how our cells process RNA for energy production
Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have made a major discovery in how human ...
Plants and animals with bigger genomes grow less efficiently—new research helps explain why they never died out
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 ...