Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

10.After World War I, sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd led a team that crafted realistic masks to restore the faces of injured ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Using CRISPR-based engineering methods to prompt stem cells to organize into embryo-like structures, scientists were able to create 'programmable' cellular models of embryos without ever experimenting ...

Captivating footage taken on January 31 in Hong Kong, China, captured the mesmerizing moment an amoeba consuming a ciliate. The video shows the amoeba slowly engulfing the single-celled organism ...