A new study shows, for the first time, that cow cells can naturally become immortal—continuing to divide indefinitely without genetic modification or any abnormal transformation. This overturns ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

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. Plants and ...

Frozen in time, RNA cellular snapshots can reveal the health, diet, and behaviors of extinct animals at time of death. In A ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The U.S. government is allowing the sale of ...

Scientists at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and the University of Udine have detected the uptake of nanoplastics in farm animal cell cultures. The results provide ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Nature creates incredible works of living art through its many different animal patterns, such as a leopard’s spots or a ...

Stem cells function as a source of new cells to grow or replace specialised tissues. To perform this function, these cells must divide to renew themselves, while some of their descendants eventually ...

A biomedical researcher combining advanced mouse models with human-based and computational approaches explains why we can’t ...

Medicinal chemists know their latest compound won't be taken seriously as a drug lead until it's proven its punch in animal models. Stem cells, however, may turn out to be a promising alternative to ...

The safety tests that the government says will no longer use animals by the end of this year include the practice of giving ...