Specialised cell type Animal or plant cell? Function Features of cell that allow it to perform its function Beta cell (in pancreas) Animal Releases hormone insulin Uses its genetic instructions to ...

The type of muscle that helps with digestion is called smooth muscle. Cardiac muscle pumps blood around the body. Skeletal muscle is made out of specialised skeletal muscle cells. It's not all ...

specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending on the number of cell types to which they can give rise. NKX3.1-expressing intermediate Basal-B ...

Depending on the tissue, the tissue renewing stem cells are either multipotent and can produce many types of specialized cells, or unipotent and can differentiate only into one type of cell. During ...

the ability to divide continuously to produce new stem cells and turn them into other body cell types. Most cells in the body are ‘specialized’, which means they can perform different functions, for ...

Instead of sending tourists to space, scientists have found a more practical use for the final frontier: growing better ...