Red blood cells placed in a solution with the same water concentration as their cytoplasm (0.85 per cent salt solution) will not experience an overall change in volume. No osmosis occurs.

freshwater plants placed in the sea, or a seaweed in a rock pool where the water evaporated in the Sun, would also lose water by osmosis. Animal cells also take in and lose water by osmosis.

Through a process called osmosis, water flows across a membrane from areas with low concentrations of solutes to areas with high concentrations of solutes until the cell can reach some sort of ...

Human and animal cancer cells were used in the tests. Stroka and Jiang were designated co-lead authors of the resulting journal article. As reported in the article, the tumor cells' new "engine" ...