Multicellular systems are living organisms that are composed of numerous interacting cells. In synthetic biology, multicellularity allows some degree of modularity in the combination of elementary ...

Cell division allows for growth and replacement of dead cells. Most multicellular organisms are made of different cell types that are specialised to carry out specific functions. Control and ...

How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question.

According to scientists from the University of Geneva, this organism can form multicellular structures resembling early animal embryos, providing insight into the origins of multicellularity.

Skeletal muscles work in pairs to move the body. When you move your arm, the bicep contracts while the triceps muscle relaxes. The bicep pulls the bones together, bending the arm. The reverse ...

The fossil offers new insight into the transition of single celled organisms to complex, multicellular animals. Modern single-celled holozoa include the most basal living animals and the fossil ...

Although some lineages or clades are entirely unicellular or multicellular (e.g., lobose amoeba and the land plants, respectively), most contain a mixture of body plans such as the unicellular and ...

All multicellular creatures interact with bacteria, but some have taken the relationship to another level with highly specialized structures that house, feed, and exploit the tiny organisms. For the ...

But as researchers have learned over the past 25 years since Doolittle’s work, there are many other ways that foreign DNA could end up inside eukaryotic cells, and these include the cells of ...

Muscle oxygen-binding proteins circumvent anatomical limits to enhance oxygen diffusion in multicellular organisms ...

The transition from single-celled organisms to multicellular life was a pivotal moment in evolutionary history, marking the emergence of complex communication systems that allow cells to ...