Researchers have identified that species in the gut microbiome can produce sphingolipids that protect the host from pathogens ...

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The interactions between the body and these microorganisms significantly ...

A team of Chinese scientists has traced the ancestor of animals and plants to a hydrogen-metabolising cell that existed before the Great Oxidation Event, a pivotal period that occurred at least 2. ...

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

Fungi, especially filamentous fungi, are a relatively understudied, biotechnologically useful resource with incredible potential for commercial applications. These multicellular eukaryotic organisms ...

Scientists recreated the origins of one of life's most important partnerships, uncovering how symbiotic relationships can evolve into powerful alliances.

Researchers at UC Berkeley are betting on fermentation and fungi strain Neurospora intermedia to turn food waste % into haute cuisine.

A new review was published as the cover paper of Aging, titled "Types of cell death and their relations to host immunological ...

This complex multicellularity has evolved independently in at least five lineages: animals, land plants, brown algae, red algae and fungi. As different as these multicellular creatures might be, their ...

Yet despite humanity’s long history of domesticating fungi to eat directly or to make staples like miso, multicellular fungi have not yet been harnessed as engineered cellular factories to the same ...

Fungi-based foods are exploding in the alternative protein world, and the fungal protein market is predicted to reach nearly $400M by 2029. The Berkeley Lab argues that while a ton of biomanufactured ...