Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

When exposed to antibiotics, approximately one out of every 10 8 -10 9 bacteria develops resistance due to spontaneous ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

An insect ecology professor at the University of Kentucky explored her research on how bacteria affects spider reproduction ...

A natural antibacterial molecule shows clinical promise. Its unusual binding site is on an excellent target: ...

Engineered starfish oocytes shape-shift in response to light, may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Until this discovery, the ability to transform nitrogen from a gas into a usable form — something called nitrogen fixation — ...

With the theoretical part extended, this paper would be of interest to cell biologists and biophysicists working on asymmetric partitioning during cell division. Asymmetric partition of fate ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

In a new study, researchers demonstrate that exosomes can serve as delivery vehicles to introduce AGO2-loaded siRNA into the cytoplasm of bacteria which downregulate gene expression of the mRNA ...

Key questions remain after the publication of a landmark study in The New England Journal of Medicine that found bacterial vaginosis (BV), which affects nearly a third of women worldwide ...