Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution.

Chinese scientists have identified 7,564 species of prokaryotic microorganisms — 89.4 percent of them previously unreported — ...

Aude Bernheim is a microbiologist studying how bacteria defend against viruses. She earned her PhD at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, researching CRISPR-Cas evolution, and completed a postdoc at the ...

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.

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

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

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

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

Given the growing antibiotic resistance crisis, novel ways to target bacterial infections are becoming increasingly important. One potential strategy is to manipulate bacterial genes at the ...

A group of Chinese scientists have unveiled the survival mechanisms of mysterious life in the Mariana Trench, Earth's deepest ...

A recent study finds that algae can store nutrients, potentially allowing them to spread across more of the ice sheet, ...