Originally found in shallow sea sediments around Hawaii, the unicellular organisms developed into multicellular structures with striking similarities to animal embryos. The discovery could help scientists better understand how and when embryonic development evolved.
One of the biggest questions in biology is how a single cell, the fertilized egg, coordinates its development into a complex, multicellular body containing different types of cells in the right places and doing the right things. I mean. Researchers learned that…
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