Back in 2018, the lab of Christine Mayr, MD, PhD, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) introduced the world to a key cellular component that had been hiding in plain sight.

The cytoplasm of ruptured Xenopus frog eggs spontaneously reorganizes into cell-like compartments, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Fish biology: How the cytoplasm separates from the yolk. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 05 / 190509112253.htm ...

Find out what animal and plant cells are and learn what the function of the cell wall and the nucleus is in this KS3 Bitesize biology article.

In the context of cytoplasm, viscoelasticity represents how quickly a cell can change shape by altering its cytoskeleton. The cytoskeleton can create impediments to movement inside the cell; because ...

Thus the egg cytoplasm of the recipient goldfish directs segmentation of the body and hence the number of vertebrae. Common carp have 33 to 36 vertebrae in their backbones, while goldfish have 26 ...