The egg cell of a multicellular organism differentiates into all the specialized cells of the adult organism. It is now believed that this differentiation begins in the egg itself ...

The findings provide new insight into the selective forces that may have favored the early evolution of multicellular organization. “It’s amazing that a single-celled organism, with no brain or ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...