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

A NASA research group featuring University of Toronto Mississauga professor Marc Laflamme has helped to explain why some prehistoric organisms evolved into larger animals. Laflamme, an assistant ...

A new study shows that multicelled organisms like the metazoan daphnia (pictured) require a tenfold increase in energy compared with protists for their growth, maintenance and survival. The high cost ...

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 ...

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

The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who've spent years trying to understand how solitary single-celled organisms began living in unison and triggered the ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. However, the emergence of new multicellular life forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the ...

A pig cell in the process of dividing. (Credit: National Institute of General Medical Sciences) Millions of years ago, a very important change — or mistake — in our ancestors’ DNA occurred, and it may ...

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

While this sounds like the stuff of fantasy, a new study says a 'third state' of existence really does exist in modern biology. According to the researchers, the third state is where the cells of a ...