Biohacking couple Kayla Barnes-Lentz and Warren Lentz from the US aim to live up to 150 years old by following a 'dirty' ...

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

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.

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

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

"These events can either be a catastrophe or the best thing that has happened to our planet, depending on what point of view ...

In a finding that offers fresh insights into the early evolution of life on Earth, two RIKEN biologists have conducted lab ...

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, ...

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals ...