Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic ...

The pathogenic bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium has only 525 genes, the fewest of any living organism. The concise creation was a favorite with geneticists, and it was one of the first organisms to be ...

The abortion fight goes on (“Supreme Court dismisses challenge to abortion pill,” web, June 13). Yet life does not begin at conception; it simply continues. This means that any living organism reading ...

“Some of the oldest organisms on Earth are cyanobacteria: they have a fossil record dating back 3,500 million years. These photosynthesizing life forms have experienced extreme environmental events — ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have developed a new drug cocktail that can convert cells into totipotent stem cells, the very seeds of life. These cells can differentiate into any cell in ...

Jonathan Cazabonne is financially supported by a B2X doctoral research fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Danny Haelewaters receives funding from the ...

Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has inaugurated a new laboratory that will significantly reduce the time it takes to sequence viruses, particularly the poliovirus. Sequencing refers to ...