A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

† † Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ‡ Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States § Department of Civil ...

This eukaryotic microbe, which is part of the National Institutes of Health model organism initiative for biomedical and human disease research, is genetically tractable and undergoes a 24-hour life ...

Stochastic gene expression from non-constitutive promoters in a multicellular organism remains largely uncharacterized. Here, the authors report stochastic expression of auxin responsive genes in ...

Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Block AF, Sector-I, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India ...

At around 1.6 billion years old the ancestors of red seaweeds are some of the oldest known multicellular organisms, and were later followed by green and brown seaweed species. Having been present for ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A mass spectrometry-based method enables identification of bacterial pathogens within minutes by detecting their specific metabolic products in clinical samples ...

Arthropods are the most diverse group in the animal kingdom. Among them, the evolutionary record holders are the insects, thanks to their ability to adapt to many different ecosystems both in ...

Despite each member of this bacterial clan existing as a single-celled organism, none of them can survive that way. Instead, they combine together and act as one giant, multicellular organism that ...