It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and cell. Like ...

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 12 (December 2021), pp. 4334-4346 (13 pages) Phytoplankton are key players in global biogeochemical cycles, and the effects of ocean warming on their ...

Our new tool allows us to study how changes in mitochondrial abundance and the mitochondrial genome affect cells and organisms." Jun Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at UT ...

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

A new discovery from scientists in Canada and Japan has revealed an organism that challenges the traditional definitions of life. This new creature, named Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, blurs the lines ...