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

Bacteria can do it, amoebas can do it, even blood cells can do it: They all have the ability to move in a goal-oriented way in liquids. And they do so despite having extremely simple structures ...

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 ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

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

A new discovery provides a unique example of sexual dimorphism in the structure of a single neuron, which is linked to ...

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 to a powerful new tool for medical diagnosis. At such a critical moment in ...

The truth is clear: Animal models aren’t just helpful; they’re irreplaceable. They remain central to understanding the ...

Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population.