Researchers from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and the University of Notre Dame, working with machine learning, have devised a method to identify organic compounds based on the refractive ...

The response to human pressure also varies markedly among organism groups. Microbes and fungi, with their short life cycles and high dispersal rates, show the most pronounced shifts in community ...

Closely related species form a genus, which are put together into larger and more distantly related groups of organisms until they reach domains, the top rank. The traditional three domains of ...

The remaining cases were divided into two groups. The first consisted of patients who had more than 1 genus of micro-organisms grown from a single blood sample. Patients in Group 2 had more than 1 ...

That phylum contains two microbial groups called Methanomethylicia and Methanodesulfokora. "All we knew about these organisms was their DNA," Hatzenpichler said. "No one had ever seen a cell of ...

The organisms in the study are known as 'multicellular magnetotactic bacteria,' or MMB. Being magnetotactic means that MMB are part of a select group of bacteria that orient their movement based on ...

because groups are harmed more by mutation than are cells. What happens during an evolutionary transition to a new higher-level unit of individuality, in this case the multicellular organism?

A team of scientists studying nematodes has recorded unusual behavior that has never been seen before in nature ...