A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope provides the most thorough account yet of an elusive ...

To better understand paxillin’s role, the team turned to one of its main binding partners, known as focal adhesion kinase or FAK. The search has proved daunting. These two proteins share a large ...

What if organ transplants effect more than just biological function? Research suggests transplanted pig organs could carry ...

Allman was searching for a peculiar kind of brain cell that he suspects is a key to ... ident­ifying the parts of the owl monkey brain that analyze visual information and make sight possible.

Vaccines typically deliver small doses of weakened or inactivated versions of the virus, or key parts of it ... In the early days, scientists used animal cells. But they later realized that ...

Stem cells are special because they can ... and then you build something new from mostly recycled parts.” Around 700 million years ago, the animal kingdom began to branch off from single-celled ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo have successfully engineered animal cells capable of photosynthesis. The team used chloroplasts from schyzon, a species that thrives in volcanic hot springs ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae ... has been confirmed in chloroplasts transplanted into animal cells,” explains Yukihiro Matsunaga, a professor at the University ...

The results are astounding. Not only did the chloroplasts survive, but they also maintained their photosynthetic activity for two days, producing oxygen inside the very animal cells. This energy ...

After decades of failed attempts, scientists have finally succeeded in coaxing animal cells into photosynthesizing. So far, the researchers have only managed to achieve the feat in cultured cells ...

Today we are exploring the fascinating world of cells including learning all the parts of the cells, the similarities and differences between animal cells and plant cells, then we will learn how to ...

Animal and plant cells have different energy-producing structures inside them. For animals, that’s mitochondria , which convert chemical energy from food into a form that our cells can use.