Scientists have been studying the possibility of combining biological cells with robotics for several years, and have been quite successful. There are multiple different types of ‘biological ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

Fueled by the mixing and matching of genes from two evolutionarily distinct cells, endosymbiosis led to the formation of a single new organism with emergent and transformative biochemical properties.

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...

The central nervous system produces electrical impulses for rapid response. New organisms are produced when male and female haploid gametes fuse. In mammals, gametes are produced in the testes or ...

Now, many of their favourite organisms are finally ready to be dissected using molecular and genetic tools. The recent interest in establishing new laboratory organisms stems in part from the ...

Meiosis, on the other hand, only occurs in eukaryotic organisms that reproduce sexually. During meiosis, the cells needed for sexual reproduction divide to produce new cells called gametes.