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Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

The newly discovered fossil records suggest that mold-like single-cell organisms "set the stage" for the animal kingdom to evolve, the researchers wrote in a new report, published in the journal ...

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For more than a decade, in an unassuming laboratory culture in the Czech Republic, a miniature universe quietly awaited its unveiling. Researchers believed they were monitoring marine ciliates ...

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