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

When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...

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 ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school.In a Wellcome funded study ...

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 ...

It doesn’t have to be that way. A team of Dutch scientists at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics (AMOLF) in ...