Researchers ID organisms behind algae blooms near Barker's Island By sequencing DNA from a bloom near Barker’s Island in Superior last fall, researchers linked the toxins to Microcystis aeruginosa.

A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.

This technique, called volumetric DNA microscopy, creates a 3D image of an entire organism from the inside out, giving scientists an unprecedented view of genetic sequences and where they are ...

The research into unique microbes uncovered the first known organisms to simultaneously catalyze aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.

AMONG the various organisms which have been isolated at this Station from fermenting straw composts, one, M.R.A. No. 112, is of special interest. It is a thermophile Ascomycete producing ...

But these organisms tend to get little attention. Researchers know a lot about E. coli—what is unclear is how much of that knowledge applies to uncultured and/or understudied bacteria living in ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being ...

Planet Earth Plants Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests News By Stephanie Pappas published 12 November 2024 ...

The study showed that the organisms experienced changing selection pressures, but that they all eventually canceled out, meaning no dominant trait took over and influenced the organism’s evolution.

But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “ third state ” that lies beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death.

Single-Celled Organism May Be First Free-Living Eukaryote Without Mitochondria Ever Discovered Mitochondria are essential components of eukaryotic cells… until they aren’t.

Scientists have discovered the organism with the largest known genome, containing 160 billion base pairs. That makes it more than 50 times bigger than the human genome, and the organism it’s ...