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

Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate. Most people will ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

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

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

Thus, although no single cell culture system or animal model is ideal for studying all features of HBV hepatitis, researchers are developing imaginative and novel animal models that are designed ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

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 ...

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, ...