In a deft experiment, biologists have recreated a system that could have birthed essential cell features such as mitochondria ...

Yet life often bounces back. In fact, in the long term, life on Earth has trended toward increasingly complex forms and ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

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Scientists discover multicellular life forms emerging from the cells of dead organisms, raising profound ethical questions ...

Jackson Women's Health, the Supreme Court decision that ended abortion rights, it was a truism in the Beltway press that ...

Recently, there has been some dispute over the approximate date that complex life will no longer be able to live on Earth. Astrophysicists have long understood that in roughly half a billion years, ...

An organism as a tenant in another - in biology, this often works quite well. ETH researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish.

Cells act as both building blocks and biological robots. Here's everything you need to know about what they do and their role ...