The snowflake yeast had been shipped from William Ratcliff’s laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. Regular yeast — the same organism that makes bread fluffy — grows as a single ...

Archaea are tiny, single-celled organisms often confused with bacteria. They live everywhere – from inside salty lakes to down our own guts – and yet, they rarely get the attention they deserve.

Humans often view being multicellular as an advantage, but most life on Earth is single-celled, thriving in extreme conditions. The evolution of multicellular life, starting about 2.5 billion years ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Scientists study ancient unicellular organism C. perkinsii to understand transition from single-cell to multicellular life. Research suggests C. perkinsii demonstrates early forms of multicellular ...

Which came first – the chicken or the egg? All animals begin development from a single-celled zygote and progress through a series of coordinated steps to become complex multicellular organisms. While ...