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.

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 ...

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 ...