The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science ...

Aude Bernheim is a microbiologist studying how bacteria defend against viruses. She earned her PhD at the Pasteur Institute ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

Some Pseudomonas species use specialized microscopic membrane devices to fight back against competing bacteria.

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Chinese scientists are mapping the deepest marine ecosystem, uncovering the secrets of life on the ocean floor, Azernews ...

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within ...

"Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call, 'karst terrain'," the US Geological Survey explains. "These are regions ...

The differences in their cellular structures are so vast that the problem of how eukaryotes could have evolved from prokaryotes is one of the greatest enigmas in biology. Here, we report a unique ...

Bacteria had grown out in a yellowish smear coating the plates ... It’s becoming accepted, a lot, in the last 10 or 20 years that the prokaryotic cytoplasm is highly organized. Hoiczyk, undergraduate ...