Cells are the smallest unit of life. Cells in multicellular plants and animals are arranged into tissues, organs and organ systems. Cells. Tissues. Organs. Organ systems. And the organism itself.

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

This highly evolved, highly orchestrated ability to make genes active or inactive—both genetically and epigenetically—is the key to the success of multicellular plants and animals, including ...

For instance, by definition every multicellular organism possesses multiple cells that remain associated following cell division. But while plant and animal species generate at least a dozen ...

researchers report in the journal Molecular Plant. Surprisingly, many of these multicellular-enabling genes had viral origins ...

In comparison to conventional multicellular platforms, plants offer superior speed, higher safety, and scalability for biopharmaceutical production. “Molecular farming started out with transgenic ...

If other plant species had similar photoreceptor genes ... and these include the cells of multicellular organisms. (See “Genetics Gifts” below.) A little more than a decade ago, University of Texas at ...