Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

MIT scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development.

Identifying and delineating cell structures in microscopy images is crucial for understanding the complex processes of life. This task is called "segmentation" and it enables a range of ...