A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

The university researchers believe it could be embraced on a much larger scale. Scientists say this small organism could ...

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want ...

Machine-learning algorithms are used to extract particle tracks and identify lifelike movement of single-cell organisms. The same sample volume is simultaneously imaged at a lower resolution by ...

Imagine a creature that can solve puzzles without thinking, remember paths without neurons, and learn from experience without ...

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

RNA-based technologies are a powerful molecular biology toolbox, empowering scientists to decipher the complexities of living ...

At first, the crew is thrilled by the discovery, studying the single-celled organism they name Calvin. But as it grows, Calvin proves to be far more intelligent and dangerous than they anticipated.

These hybrid lifeforms, which are not considered true organisms but are listed as species on the ... hinting that they too ...

Scientists have discovered two new methane-producing archaea in the human gut, revealing surprising links to inflammation and ...