Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

It was the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine that helped shed light on what it takes to generate a stem cell in an animal. Stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who actually made the discovery six ...

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

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 ...

Animal and plant cells can be visualised using a model. Find out how to make them with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

Only a handful of creatures can regenerate body parts, making them something special in the animal kingdom. From the carnivorous Mexican axolotl to the color-changing chameleon and the red-nosed ...

The biologists took chloroplasts—the cell components responsible for photosynthesis—from red algae and injected them into hamster cells. As a result, the animal cells gained the ability to ...

The research team began by analyzing gene expression — which bits of DNA are converted into RNA used to make cell proteins — in more than 65,000 individual cells across four placozoan species.

Post’s company, Mosa Meat in Maastricht, the Netherlands, takes muscle stem cells from cow biopsies (trialling different animals and parts of the cow’s body) and grows them into mature muscle ...

Contrary to what the caption claims, this is a painting of sorts -- a digital illustration by an artist named Russell Kightley.It is not the most detailed image of a human cell to date -- in fact ...