When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

Scientists uncover a basic principle that shows how higher nutrient levels change the pace of cell growth, revealing a universal rule that applies to microbial growth. A research group that includes a ...

UMAMI Bioworks has unveiled its Virtual Marine Cell, the world’s first computational platform that simulates the inner ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, are essential for all living organisms. They bind to mRNA and move along the ...

On the universal curve, performance climbs steadily as organisms warm until they reach an optimal temperature where activity ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Hyperthermophilic archaea are true survival experts. They thrive in boiling hot springs and deep-sea vents—environments ...

Spermine, a small but powerful molecule in the body, helps neutralize harmful protein accumulations linked to Alzheimer’s and ...

A study to see how moss would fare in the extreme environment of space has left scientists “genuinely astonished” after the ...