A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult marine bristleworms continue to grow throughout life—driven by a ring of ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in ...

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Under a microscope, the newly described organism Solarion looks less like a cell and more like a tiny star, its body ringed ...

Cells with nuclei bear certain similarities to simple archaeal cells, which may help clear up their fuzzy evolutionary past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For billions of years after the origin of life, the only living things on Earth were tiny, primitive cells resembling today’s bacteria. But then, more than 1.5 billion years ago, something remarkable ...

Molecular biology has something in common with kite-flying competitions. At the latter, all eyes are on the colorful, elaborate, wildly kinetic constructions darting through the sky. Nobody looks at ...

EDGE FGT: Cell type-specific tools for the study of gene function in spongesScott Nichols, College of Natural Sciences and ...