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 ...

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

In fact, there were only single-celled organisms that could move around through the waters of the oceans. Needless to say, these single-celled organisms were quite simple compared to what we see ...

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 ...

Discover how Bruker is advancing live single-cell functional analysis, helping to accelerate breakthroughs in immunology and ...

The radiating, kaleidoscopic pattern you see here was once the living glass skeleton – the cell wall – of a single-celled organism called a diatom. These organisms absorb silicon from their ...

The "hydrogen hypothesis" suggests early eukaryotic evolution was driven by symbiosis between archaeal and bacterial cells, with hydrogen as a pivotal element.