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

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

Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS, CC BY-SA Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new ...

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

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For the first time, a team of scientists has created a synthetic single-celled organism that can divide and grow like a regular living cell. This breakthrough could lead to designer cells that can ...

Physarum polycephalum is an unusual single-celled organism that can grow to be several square feet in size. These massive cells can live in cool, damp areas in temperate forests, and are able to ...

It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses ...

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Scaling up from one cell to many may have been a small step rather than a giant leap for early life on Earth. A single-celled organism closely related to animals controls its life cycle using a ...

Large swaths of single-celled eukaryotes, non-bacterial single-cell organisms like microalgae, fungi or mold, can control microbiomes (a collection of tiny microbes, mostly bacteria) by secreting ...