A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare ...

Last month, Brown was named the 2025 recipient of MSU’s Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award, the university’s highest ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a ...

Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells possess a nucleus enclosed within a cell membrane, making up one of the three domains of life, Eukaryota. They include multicellular organisms such as plants, ...

Viruses are trifurcated into eukaryotic, archaeal and bacterial categories. This domain-specific ecology underscores why eukaryotic viruses typically co-opt eukaryotic genes and bacteriophages ...

Laura Eme is in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75123 Uppsala, Sweden. Thijs J. G. Ettema is in the Department of Cell and Molecular ...

Most days you move through the world without thinking about the invisible creatures that surround you. Yet one of them, a ...

The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning ...

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells: The cell is the basic unit of life and forms the building blocks of all living organisms. It was discovered by Robert Hooke In 1665. Some cells have membrane-bound ...

The first analyses of gene sequence data indicated that the eukaryotic tree of life consisted of a long stem of microbial groups "topped" by a crown-containing plants, animals, and fungi and their ...