This important study, which tackles the challenge of analyzing genome integrity and instability in unicellular pathogens by introducing a novel single-cell genomics approach, presents compelling ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare and morphologically unique unicellular eukaryote that sheds new light on ...

Cells are the basic building blocks of life—the smallest units that can do all the jobs a living thing needs. Most cells fit into two groups: prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The most significant ...

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons. In 2010, biologists made a shocking discovery. Living in the ...

A team of Chinese researchers has developed two new genome editing technologies, known collectively as Programmable Chromosome Engineering (PCE) systems. The study, published online in Cell on August ...

A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed two new genome editing technologies, ...

TOKYO — Doctors may eventually be able to tell whether your cells are aging prematurely without needles, blood tests, or expensive lab work. Japanese researchers have developed an experimental ...

A still from surveillance video released by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office shows inmates escaping a New Orleans jail. - Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office A fifth inmate was recaptured following a ...

A maintenance worker charged in connection with the Orleans Parish jail escape said an inmate threatened to shank him if he did not help, court documents released Tuesday said. Also Tuesday, a fifth ...

A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, according to the Louisiana attorney general’s office. On Tuesday, a fifth ...

Mysterious microbes living in wetlands in China have helped to narrow down when the ancestor of all animals and plants lived – and the oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere may have played a key role in ...