What if life didn’t require oxygen? For centuries, we've operated under the assumption that oxygen is an essential part of ...

The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), the theoretical single organism from which all life on Earth descends, is now ...

Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarizes the millennia-old relationship between man and mouse. Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus ...

With its speedy growth and adaptability, E. coli has spent many years at the top of the "model organism" list, with no signs of slipping. But E. coli is a blip in a rich microbial world ...