Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

The human skin hosts a multitude of microorganisms, including fungi that could play a key role in our health. A recent study ...

According to a new study by American physicist Philippe Kurian of Quantum Biology Laboratory at Howard University in Washington, D.C., living cells ar ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

“This is corroborated in early protists and fungi,” said Dr. Fernando Ballesteros from the ... of Organismic and Molecular Evolution at Mainz University. The eukaryotic cell, the most significant ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

The expression of symptoms of viral infections is a byproduct of complex virus-host molecular pathways. These remain largely ...

The molecular pathways involved in antiviral defenses and counter-defenses in host-pathogen systems remain unclear. Researchers have used Neurospora crassa as a model organism to explore how RNA ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...