Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

Imagine losing a limb and growing it back like nothing ever happened. Sounds like science fiction? Not for many animals in ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure.

Regeneration involves specialised cells, often stem cells, that can transform into different types of tissues needed to replace lost body parts. Photo Credits: Shutterstock ...

Then, in 2022, part of Ukraine’s national seed collection was destroyed by a Russian bomb. ... Of course, even on the moon, a collection of animal cells would face threats.

Mitochondrial, which are the parts of the cell that generate energy, were originally free-living bacteria that developed symbiotic relationships with other cells billions of years ago, he explained.

Lab-grown, or cultivated, meat can be produced from animal cells. ... making them a crucial part of the mixture, says Andrew Stout at Tufts University in Massachusetts. ...

When you put all animals together, it's probably 1% or less. And humans are just one species in the animal kingdom. Our cell-based consciousness theory is that life and consciousness were ...