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 ...

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

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

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

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

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

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

University of Calgary researchers have discovered that all living organisms emit extremely faint light undetectable to the ...

Multiple defense systems CRISPR is a mechanism in the adaptive immune systems of bacteria and other certain single-cell organisms that offers protection against viruses, called phages. The six ...