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Scientists discovered that axons don’t quite look like straight cables. Instead, axons often appear like pearls on a string.

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Bowel cancer cells can “shapeshift” to resemble skin or muscle cells to enable them to spread aggressively, according to scientists who hope the “major breakthrough” can help treat a surge of the ...

Ancient cell types are multifunctional, for example: the light-sensitive and locomotor steering rudder cell of sponges and cnidarians; the epithelial muscle ... in cell shape and projection ...

A stem-cell niche is an area of a tissue that provides a specific microenvironment, in which stem cells are present in an undifferentiated and self-renewable state. Cells of the stem-cell niche ...

Pediatric skeletal muscle growth is a continuous developmental process spanning three distinct phases: neonatal infancy, childhood, and puberty. Each stage ...