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

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having split from a common ancestor 20 million years ago, a new study finds.

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 ...

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 ...

Recent advances in single-cell sequencing techniques made this research possible and open up new methods to explore the connection between genes and cellular traits in crops.“A decade ago, we ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how specialized cell types and ...

Scientists are conducting a long-term experiment on evolution to investigate how single-celled organisms could evolve into multicellular lifeforms. After thousands of generations, their yeast grew ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

“If you’re a single cell, you’re dinner. But if you can form large groups of cells, now you’re too big to eat.” The new findings highlight how physical forces influence biological evolution.

All life on Earth evolved from a single-celled organism that lived roughly 3.5 billion years ago, a new study seems to confirm. ... "Evolution," he said, "should not be given any special status." ...

Turn on one combination from among your 100,000 genes and the cell will become a brain neuron; turn on another combination and it becomes a bone cell in your fingertip. And if the genetic switches get ...