Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells ...

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 ...

As a result, under the microscope, the cells “look like iridescent pearls”, Plikus says. Cell ‘atlases’ offer unprecedented view of placenta, intestines and kidneys ...