Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

Biologists used the world’s largest single-celled organism, an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, to study the nature of structure and form in plants. It is a single cell that can grow to a ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Ancient marine organism's dual-layer structure reveals both past and present ocean environments. Story by Science X staff • 16h. A new study led by an international team, ...

The so-called cellular slime mold, a unicellular organism that may transition into a multicellular organism under stress, has just been found to have a tissue structure that was previously thought ...

Although each organism's DNA is unique, all DNA is composed of the same nitrogen-based molecules. ... they owe much of their structure and bonding capabilities to their deoxyribose molecule.

What may be the most thorough study ever of a single organism has produced a beta code for life’s essential subroutines, and shown that even the simplest creatures are more complex than ...

Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms—without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial ...