cells

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The team also traced the gene FOS, which is widely expressed in blood cells across many animal species, back to a unicellular ancestor that lived about 700 million years ago.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Using this method, they built evolutionary family trees for blood cell lineages and estimated how these cells developed throughout animal evolution.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Their results suggest that the development pathways of modern blood and immune cells still reflect this ancient evolutionary history.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

The researchers also compared blood cells with unicellular organisms in an effort to identify possible single-celled ancestors.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

“In these first attempts the combined cells became cancerous as expected, but there was no other change in cell anatomy.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste