Light is a fundamental signal affecting every form of life. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks in ...

Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Occurred on January 16, 2022 / Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "The invasion of a slime mold on a mushroom: a fascinating spectacle of nature in the Eifel region Myxomycetes, also known as slime ...

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A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding ...

The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet. In 2017, scientists identified a single-celled marine organism called Chromosphaera ...

Images of the multicellular development of the ichthyosporean Chromosphaera perkinsii, a close cousin of animals. In red, the membranes and in blue the nuclei with their DNA. The image was obtained ...

Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, humans) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine base in their DNA. This process, a type of epigenetic modification, plays an important role in ...

It’s time to welcome a new type of cell to the club of living things that can harvest nitrogen from the atmosphere. Until now, the only lifeforms thought to pull nitrogen from the air and turn it into ...

The most intriguing new find is that E. coli may not always be a unicellular organism. In tests in microfluidic devices with live cell imaging, the team found that, at times, individual bacteria would ...