Another special element of MMB is the "magnetotactic" in its name, which means it orients itself based on Earth's magnetic ...

The organisms in the study are known as 'multicellular magnetotactic bacteria,' or MMB. Being magnetotactic means that MMB are part of a select group of bacteria that orient their movement based on ...

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

‘But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a ‘third state’ that lies beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death. ‘Certain ...

Animated description of the digestive process and the structures of the digestive system involved at each stage. Digestion is the process by which food is broken down to be absorbed into the blood ...

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

elegans. Translucent and easy to raise, the thousand-celled nematode fills petri dishes in labs all over the world and is probably the best-understood multicellular organism in science.

All living things have DNA within their cells. In fact, nearly every cell in a multicellular organism possesses the full set of DNA required for that organism. However, DNA does more than specify ...

The egg cell of a multicellular organism differentiates into all the specialized cells of the adult organism. It is now believed that this differentiation begins in the egg itself ...

The duplication and division of cells is critical to keeping all multicellular organisms alive. But the opposite process is ...