is essential to the global carbon cycle and organisms that conduct photosynthesis represent the lowest level in most food chains (Figure 1). Most living things depend on photosynthetic cells to ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

Cloning is a biotechnological process that involves creating genetically identical copies of an organism or cell. In essence, a clone is an exact genetic replica of the original organism or cell, ...

Basal multicellular animals are capable of coordinated movement despite the absence of an organize nervous system, though it remains unclear how cells communicate in these organisms. Here they use ...

We're all very complex organisms, made up of lots of different types of cells carrying out different jobs in our bodies; such as nerve cells, blood cells, fat cells and muscle cells. So ...

Yale scientists studied how the body tolerates cancer-causing mutations in skin stem cells, uncovering a surprising redox ...

Scientists have been studying the possibility of combining biological cells with robotics for several years, and have been quite successful. There are multiple different types of ‘biological ...