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 ...

Mitochondria, the organelles in question, are best known as power packs—places where glucose molecules are disassembled to ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of multicellular life.

By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened ...

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

In fact, why and how multicellular life evolved has long puzzled biologists. The first known instance of multicellularity was about 2.5 billion years ago, when marine cells (cyanobacteria) hooked up ...

Boosting a failing cell’s metabolic processes by adding ... the ancestors of human beings back when those ancestors were unicellular, retain from their days of independence a list of other ...

Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease. The healthy range for an adult is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes per microliter (µL) of blood. Doctors will ...

Proteins in the sheath of cellular protrusions control how effectively cells can adhere to surfaces. Biological cells often ...