One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...
Placozoa are among the simplest animals in the world. They were initially discovered living on the walls of aquariums in a ...
“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...
A key question that remains in biology and biophysics is how three-dimensional tissue shapes emerge during animal development. Research teams have now found a mechanism by which tissues can be ...
From a Hercules beetle tough natural armor to a sea anemone’s soft fluid-filled body, nature boasts a variety of skeletons. A circa-1910 x-ray photograph of pot-bellied seahorses shows their ...
Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing ...
Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...
Tissue optical clearing is a fundamental technique that enhances light penetration deep into biological samples by reducing light scattering through refractive index homogenization. This process ...