Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

Over the past several years, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that the cells of various organisms can be repurposed into biological robots, representing stunning advancements in the field of ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its cells, according to new research. Cells have been shown to continue to function even after the organism they originated from is deceased, often ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists were diving into a mysterious biological phenomenon known as the "third state," where cells of a deceased organism can adopt new functions after death, Popular Mechanics ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a new “self-driving” microscope that addresses two major ...

Since the dawn of human history, we have always wondered how we got here. What processes took place that brought us from single-celled organisms into the living, thinking human beings that we are ...

The life sciences focus on patterns, processes, and relationships of living organisms. Life is self-contained, self-sustaining, self-replicating, and evolving, operating according to laws of the ...

Scientists have provided fascinating insights into the structure of single-celled organisms living in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and infamous for its pungent stench. The foraminiferal species ...