A newly found organelle, the hemifusome, helps manage cellular recycling. It may play a role in inherited diseases and open ...

Historical Perspective Published: May 1999 A unifying concept: the history of cell theory Paolo Mazzarello Nature Cell Biology 1, E13–E15 (1999) Cite this article ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly ...

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

Imagine that you want to know the plot of a movie, but you only have access to either the visuals or the sound. With visuals ...

During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells ...