They both have cell membranes, although one has a cell wall and the other doesn’t. Plant and animal cells have many ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

B urmese pythons ( Python bivittatus) don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the ...

Research into the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons has revealed the existence of a previously unknown cell type, ...

San Diego startup Gallant announced $18 million in funding to bring the first FDA-approved ready-to-use stem cell therapy to ...

A study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that inhibitory neurons born later in development mature more rapidly to keep ...

Responders to an animal cruelty complaint were met with a strong odor, dead cats and other horrors. One officer threw up.

This important study presents a new method for longitudinally tracking cells in two-photon imaging data that addresses the specific challenges of imaging neurons in the developing cortex. It provides ...