A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDNA ...

How alterations in cell metabolism translate into specific developmental gene programs remains a major question. This study ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they divide, a key process in keeping cells healthy.

Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed ...

A light-activated enzyme morphed round starfish egg cells into different shapes. This technology could one day be useful for ...

Novel tools that allow neuron-specific investigations of the structure controlling sleep regulation in fruit flies reveal the extent of neuronal heterogeneity.

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

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...

Abstract: Cell-free integrated sensing and communication (CF-ISAC ... This algorithm exploits the geometry of the proposed problem and uses a complex oblique manifold. Conventional convex-concave ...