An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

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

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

The study, led by paleogeneticist Edmund Moody from the University of Bristol, claims that LUCA may have emerged 4.2 billion ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

The four systems represent a wide range of cell types (eukaryotes and prokaryotes) with different movement mechanisms and cellular properties. For each system, the researchers created monolayers ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked ... and structural traits in archaeal cells—particularly their proteinaceous surface ...

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