Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells — much less a brain — can behave in ways that resemble ...
Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have uncovered new insights into the bioluminescence of a ...
Slime molds are yellow, oozing, amoeba-like organisms often found on decaying logs and in moist areas. They have no neurons ...
During bacterial infection, mitochondrial splitting helps activate host defenses. Researchers pinpointed an enzyme behind ...
A team of atmospheric and microbiological researchers, led by Alex Huffman of the University of Denver, Anna Kunert, and ...
The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is one of the longest living vertebrates on Earth, with an estimated lifespan ...
A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...
It was obvious to me that was where the growth was.” Growing and controling bone marrow stem cells (like shown here) outside ...
Scientists have engineered living machines from frog cells that spontaneously grow their own nervous systems, and the results ...
Cellular homeostasis and stress response are tightly coordinated processes involving a complex interplay between signaling ...
In the wake of recent government policy aimed at actively replacing animal models in drug discovery, we consider a possible ...
What unites animals, plants, fungi, and protists in the same domain is the fact that they’re all composed of eukaryotic cells ...