Plankton are the invisible engines of life on Earth, producing much of the planet's oxygen and forming the foundation of the ...

In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on earth, some 3.5 billion years ago, simple cells lacking a nucleus and other detailed internal structure dominated the ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

Long before plants and animals existed, Earth was dominated by microscopic organisms called prokaryotes. They lived simple, single-celled lives, soaking up nutrients in the oceans billions of years ...

Schematic evolutionary tree of the 5 microbial species included in the study. From left to right: Trimastix marina, Paratrimastix pyriformis, Blattamonas nauphoetae, Streblomastix strix, and ...

However, not much is about eukaryotic cells. So, we chose a eukaryotic organism like yeast to investigate the premature termination of translation and if there were any mechanisms present to counter ...

Researchers have discovered the first in-situ evidence of chlorophyll remnants in a billion-year-old multicellular algal microfossil preserved in shales from the Congo Basin. This discovery has made ...

Artist's rendering of of two primordial eukaryotic organisms of the "Protosterol Biota" on the ocean floor. Based on molecular fossils, organisms of the Protosterol Biota lived in the oceans about 1.6 ...

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

For more than 1 billion years, Earth’s waterways and oceans have been home to a collection of rocks. Nestled at the floor of of the water, these formations have grown over time, stumping scientists ...

Since the bacterial-origin CRISPR-Cas system rose to popularity as a genome editing tool, scientists have wondered whether other genome editors exist in nature. Now, two independent research teams ...