Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Researchers from TU Wien, University of Vienna, and Tufts University discovered how microorganisms swim efficiently without ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

All living beings emit a strange glow linked to vitality that vanishes when they die, according to a new study that may lead ...

The body defends itself against pathogens by depriving them of vital iron. However, this strategy doesn't always succeed against Salmonella. Researchers have discovered that these bacteria ...

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Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight ...

Peighton Wittway had an opportunity to visit an African savannah, see an elephant or two, control a roller coaster’s movement ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press thought leaders invited review published today, researchers have mapped out the ...