Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down to how ...

Researchers think a microbe that was engulfed by an algal cell 100 million years ago has since evolved into an integral part ...

Eukaryotic cells also contain a variety of structures and organelles not present in prokaryotic cells. Throughout the course of evolution, organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts (a form ...

The Birth of the Nitroplast In an unprecedented discovery, researchers have documented a rare evolutionary leap where an ...

In contrast, the DNA of prokaryotic cells is distributed loosely around the cytoplasm, along with the protein synthesis machinery. This closeness allows prokaryotic cells to rapidly respond to ...

Bo Larsen, who engineered Highlighter while at SLCU, has taken us a major step closer to this goal of “talking” to plants by engineering a light-controlled gene expression system (optogenetics system) ...

Prokaryotic cell DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is found on one or more rings called plasmids.

Straková, Dáša Sánchez-Porro, Cristina de la Haba, Rafael R. and Ventosa, Antonio 2024. Decoding the Genomic Profile of the Halomicroarcula Genus: Comparative Analysis and Characterization of Two ...

Days after documenting his truly historic moment, speaking to Yahoo News, the University of California researcher has ...

Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is ...