Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...

ERS Genomics Limited ('ERS'), the CRISPR licensing company, and Jumpcode Genomics ('Jumpcode'), a life science tools company ...

Cell growth usually refers to cell proliferation, the increase in cell numbers that occurs through repeated cell division. Cell growth can also refer to the enlargement of cell volume, which can ...

Asgard archaea emerged as a key piece in the puzzle of how complex life evolved, acting as a potential link between simple archaea and eukaryotes—organisms like plants and animals whose cells contain ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...