In these organisms, which can live either as single cells or as multicellular colonies, she has found much of the molecular toolkit necessary to launch animal life.

Theories about how animals became multicellular are shifting as researchers find greater complexity in our single-celled ancestors. From one came many. Some 700 million years ago, a single cell gave ...

New mechanism for how animal cells stay intact Date: October 12, 2018 Source: Stanford University Summary: Watching the movement of every cell in an adult animal all at once, researchers ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells ...

In a finding that directly contradicts the standard biological model of animal cell communication, scientists have discovered that typical cells in animals have the ability to transmit and receive ...