Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have encouraged early life forms to assemble into colonies, according to a new ...

Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms. Genetically, however, there are significant differences between the two domains, especially regarding their cell envelopes and metabolic processes.

As per The Conversation, the sun will get brighter as it ages, which might turn our waters purple. Evidently, however, the ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

Glycolysis is an ancient metabolic activity. It consists of a set of reactions that convert glucose into energy. This central ...

Research on gastrointestinal diseases, especially cancer, has mainly focused on epithelial cells, which line the surfaces of ...

As well as providing energy to the cell, glycolysis also controls cell fate in early embryonic development, laying the ...

In a lab at Queen Mary University of London, a mouse was born whose existence defied conventional biology. It carried within ...

The key to the “Second Skin” fabric is the trillion or so single-cell organisms printed into every garment, which has dozens of tiny triangular flaps. The bacteria change shape quickly in ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants. Ten years ...