The idea of animal cells adopting photosynthetic abilities may sound like science fiction, but some animals, like giant clams ...

Being able to use a cell's size to estimate its frequency in the body could help doctors better understand certain body systems and hard-to-count cell types, the researchers say.

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly ...

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.

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.

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and ...

The research team began by analyzing gene expression — which bits of DNA are converted into RNA used to make cell proteins — in more than 65,000 individual cells across four placozoan species.