Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions.

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange ...

Until this shift has occurred, a cluster of cells is just a cluster of single celled organisms, not a simple multicellular organism.” Reference: Koschwanez, Foster and Murray. 2011.

From one cell to many: How did multicellularity evolve? Date: January 25, 2014 Source: American Journal of Botany Summary: In the beginning there were single cells.

Just one percent of the time, a mutation killed the cell outright. And a mutation was very harmful to a cell (but not lethal) about 0.2 percent of the time. "Most of the time it's really neutral.

Mark Lynch from BioSkryb Genomics will then present a novel workflow that simplifies the isolation of single cells from a variety of samples for low-input and single-cell genomics. Learning Objectives ...

This simple procedure, as they later described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, rapidly caused the evolution of tiny clumps — yeasts that had evolved to stay attached to each ...

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having ...

Single-cell RNA sequencing enables researchers to profile gene expression from thousands of individual cells in a tumor, but the resulting data is quite complex and it’s not easy to pinpoint the ...

Whilst the cell-type-specific evolution differences observed in the study are indeed novel, the authors note that their findings do concur with the literature. They also identify an important ...