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

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

Japanese researchers have generated lung cells directly from mouse tissue. These lung cells are called Alveolar Epithelial ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully generated lung cells similar to alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells from mouse ...

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

Cells are the fundamental, structural, and functional units of living organisms. Cells are composed of cytoplasm containing various organelles, such as the nucleus, in which the DNA is stored, or ...

Sacoglossan sea slugs, discreet inhabitants of coral reefs, hide an astonishing secret. Unlike other animals, they can "steal ...

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

Neural stem cells articles from across Nature Portfolio Neural stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells present in the adult central nervous system that can self-renew, and give rise to new ...