"This happens through asymmetrical cell division, where the bigger part -- the 'mother cell' -- engulfs the smaller part, the 'forespore', providing it with nutrients and a protective outer layer.

The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby cells, including in placental cells, according to a team of researchers from ...

Centriole reproduction in somatic cells is based on the duplication of mature 'mother' centrioles. A daughter centriole forms in close spatial association with the wall of the mother centriole ...