In a remarkable development, scientists at Tufts University and the University of Vermont have created a new biological organism that can self-replicate. The discovery builds on earlier work creating ...

A major event in the evolution of organisms on earth was the development of complex, multicellular life forms made of eukaryotic cells, which are thought to have come from prokaryotic cells. Studies ...

Over 3,000 generations of laboratory evolution, researchers watched as their model organism, 'snowflake yeast,' began to adapt as multicellular individuals. In new research, the team shows how ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Scientists have identified a new species of microscopic worms living in the ground below South African mines, isolated from fracture water gushing up from miles below the Earth's surface. It is the ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Single-celled organism harbors protein sensor that was thought to be restricted to multicellular animals. A microorganism whose evolutionary roots can be traced to the era of the first multicellular ...

The world would look very different without multicellular organisms – take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars. But precisely ...